buffersystem
A buffersystem, in computing, is a subsystem that provides temporary storage to accommodate differences in data production and consumption rates, with the goal of smoothing bursts and improving throughput. Buffers reside in main memory or on devices and are managed by software, hardware, or both. Common data structures include circular buffers, queues, and memory pools.
Operation: Producers write data into a buffer; consumers read from it; when a buffer becomes full, producers
Design considerations include buffer size, allocation policy, synchronization, and thread-safety. Other factors are the choice of
Techniques commonly used with buffersystems include double buffering to overlap computation with I/O, pipelining to process
Applications span operating system I/O subsystems, network protocol stacks, audio and video processing, real-time monitoring, and