Custom video editor trick: request 64GB upfront and serialize frames to NVMe
yacineMTB · x · 2026-10-13
Yacine Mittal shares engineering tradeoffs from building his own video editor: the program immediately requests 64GB from the OS so nothing takes more than 20ms, and since NVMe is nearly as fast as RAM, entire video frames can be serialized to disk with imperceptible load times.
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