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Record 1 1998-06-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Regional Dialects and Expressions
  • Information Processing (Informatics)
DEF

To read a large data file entirely into core before working on it. This may be contrasted with the strategy of reading a small piece at a time, processing it, and then reading the next piece.

CONT

"This program slurps in a 1024-by-1024 matrix of numbers and then crunches them using an FFT (Fast Fourier Transform).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Régionalismes et usages particuliers
  • Traitement de l'information (Informatique)
DEF

Lire un très gros fichier en mémoire avant de le traiter. S'oppose à la stratégie qui consiste à lire et traiter le fichier par morceaux.

CONT

Ce programme engloutit une matrice de 1K sur 1K et fait une transformée de Fourier rapide.

Spanish

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