Ankur

• Jul 14th, 2007

 

Buffer is something that is used to hold the data temporarly.
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If we are watching any thing online,then buffering of data takes place i.e for sometime data get stored in buffer then processed.

jana05

 Profile Answers by jana05 

• Jan 11th, 2008

 

Its a temporary location where you can preserve the data. For example when you want to swap 2 nos like x=2 and y=5, so that after swaping you get x=5 and y=2. One method wud be to use a temporary variable like z and copy x value to z, so z=2. Then copy y value to x, so x=5. Finally, copy z value to y, so y=2. Here z is temporary variable and the BUFFER.

Similarly, when you watch videos online, all the data is copied to a temporary location or buffered and then the video can be watched. Buffers are used in almost all programming tasks. Its like a helper to your main task. It does work by itself, it is used by other tasks to make a bigger task possible.

Anis Madarkhan

• Jul 10th, 2013

 

Data buffer

In computer science , a *buffer* is a region of a physical memory storage used to temporarily store data while it is being moved from one place to another. Typically, the data is stored in a buffer as it is retrieved from an input device  (such as a microphone) or just before it is sent to an output device (such as speakers). However, a buffer may be used when moving data between processes

Avinash kumar

• Jan 23rd, 2015

 

A buffer is a memory space that is used to hold different data items temporarily. its used for communication of different processes.I.e. Interprocess communication. The most relevant example is , playing a video online the video first buffers for a while and then starts.i.e. Part of video gets stored on video player of browser and then buffering and playing takes place simultaneously.i.e. Old video segment gets replaced by newer one.

sathiyapriya

• Feb 8th, 2015

 

it is like a storage area