How Does the Kernel Copy Memory so Quickly? YT

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Hey guys - in today's video we dive into some of the internals of the virtual memory subsystem within the XNU / iOS kernel. Specifically, we will look at the vm_copy kernel API and discover how this can be used to copy huge buffers in almost no time at all.

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Billy