Re:Show HN: LevelDB outperforms others on a cheap phone (Mic...
by spotman on Friday March 25, 2016 @02:58PM
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Define intensive.
But any well architected app that wants to work well without Internet will write many things to disk.
500 writes a second is very realistic when downloading some bulk content that will be used to power different states of the app. Now this might not be a continuous burst of 500 operations a second sustained, but many it has a handful of these bursts over several minutes. Given that, I would say that lots of mobile apps can have brief periods of tons of writes.
But any well architected app that wants to work well without Internet will write many things to disk.
500 writes a second is very realistic when downloading some bulk content that will be used to power different states of the app. Now this might not be a continuous burst of 500 operations a second sustained, but many it has a handful of these bursts over several minutes. Given that, I would say that lots of mobile apps can have brief periods of tons of writes.