How to scan through really huge files on disk?
问题 Considering a really huge file(maybe more than 4GB) on disk,I want to scan through this file and calculate the times of a specific binary pattern occurs. My thought is: Use memory-mapped file(CreateFileMap or boost mapped_file) to load the file to the virtual memory. For each 100MB mapped-memory,create one thread to scan and calculate the result. Is this feasible?Are there any better method to do so? Update : Memory-mapped file would be a good choice,for scaning through a 1.6GB file could be