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Circular buffer

In computer science, a circular buffer, circular queue, cyclic buffer or ring buffer is a data structure that uses a single, fixed-size buffer as if it were connected end-to-end. This structure lends itself easily to buffering data streams. There were early circular buffer implementations in hardware.

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Uses

FIFOLIFOQueueLinked listProducer–consumer problem
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Optimization

MappingVirtual memoryPage size
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Fixed-length-element and contiguous-block circular buffer

ATMData alignmentPing-pong buffering
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Circular buffer mechanics

PointerC++
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Uses

Circular buffer mechanics

Optimization

Fixed-length-element and contiguous-block circular buffer

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Circular buffer

Nodes27
Edges26
Triples27
Avg. degree1.93
Density0.074074
Components1

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Circular buffer

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related to Uses · 9
Circular buffer → Circular, FIFO, For, However, If, In, LIFO, Should, The
related to External links · 8
Circular buffer → Archived, CircularBuffer, DSPCircular, Linux, Portland Pattern RepositoryBoost, Synchronized Bounded Queue, Templated Circular Buffer Container, Wayback Machine
related to Fixed-length-element and contiguous-block circular buffer · 4
Circular buffer → ATM, Each, Perhaps, Some
related to Optimization · 3
Circular buffer → Naturally, Reading, When
related to overview · 2
Circular buffer → Assume, In
is a · 1
Circular buffer → completely ideal implementation

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buffer circular data elements length queue first two removed write size end uses full used implementation start read contiguous buffering

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Circular bufferis acompletely ideal implementation0.90text
Circular bufferrelated to External linksCircularBuffer0.60section
Circular bufferrelated to External linksPortland Pattern RepositoryBoost0.60section
Circular bufferrelated to External linksTemplated Circular Buffer Container0.60section
Circular bufferrelated to External linksSynchronized Bounded Queue0.60section
Circular bufferrelated to External linksLinux0.60section
Circular bufferrelated to External linksDSPCircular0.60section
Circular bufferrelated to External linksArchived0.60section
Circular bufferrelated to External linksWayback Machine0.60section
Circular bufferrelated to Fixed-length-element and contiguous-block circular bufferPerhaps0.60section
Circular bufferrelated to Fixed-length-element and contiguous-block circular bufferSome0.60section
Circular bufferrelated to Fixed-length-element and contiguous-block circular bufferATM0.60section

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