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Memory-Mapped Tick Data

Medium · Networking & Systems · Quant Trader interview question · memory-mapping, i/o, systems, performance, backtesting

A backtesting engine uses mmap() to read a 50GB tick data file stored on disk. What is the primary performance advantage of using mmap() over read() for accessing this tick data?

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