buffer

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What is buffer?
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In what context? It means different things to different people in
different areas of expertise. Most commonly, in software and *some*
hardware contexts, it's an area, usually of fixed size allocation, of fast
memory set aside for holding a block of data, which can be filled and
drained with differing granularity.
 
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