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In computer programming, chunking has multiple meanings1.
Chunking meaning
- In memory management, chunking are the strategies for improving performance by using special knowledge of a situation to aggregate related memory-allocation request
- In HTTP message transimission: chunking is a specific feature of the HTTP 1.1 protocol; it is opposite that used in memory management: it instead refers to a facility that allows inconveniently large messages to be broken into conventialy-sized smaller “chunks”
- In data deduplication, data synchronisation and remote data compression: chunking is a process to split a file into smaller pieces called chucks by the chunking algorithm
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Wikipedia. “chunking”. Available at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chunking_(computing). (Accessed: ). ↩︎