Re:What makes BeOS and Haiku unique
by avhon1 on Sunday December 02, 2018 @07:28PM
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People keep bringing this up, but I really don't think I, or anybody, should need an SSD in order to have a fast-acting computer. Spinning rust, RAM, and CPU clocks are faster now than twenty years ago, CPUs have vastly more cache, we have more CPUs, and our compilers and prefetch algorithms are smarter than ever. Why, then, are the same basic tasks not any faster, and sometimes slower? Why is the answer to use even faster technology?
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Re:What makes BeOS and Haiku unique
by paulddraper on Sunday December 02, 2018 @08:31PM
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I hear you, but why can't humans go farther from the Earth than they did in the 1970s?
Because for better or worse that's not what technology has been designing for.
Many programs nowadays are designed for the tradeoffs of SSDs rather than spinning media.
Re:What makes BeOS and Haiku unique
by jmartrican on Sunday December 02, 2018 @09:38PM
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I agree but what I have noticed from doing some troubleshooting is that applications now-a-days (or rather always) use up more hardware as time goes by. For example, I verified with perfmon that my IDE accessed over 50,000 files when i clicked on 'Open' and the directory tree popped up. It accessed every file in my Documents and other standard folders. Browsers also use up a lot of disk IO. Just by getting an SSD you speed up your web browsing.