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Re:Tired of explaining Linux's seemingly obtuse memory usage... by recoiledsnake on Tuesday February 01, 2011 @11:22AM (#2166023)
Doing what? Prefetching? It has been there since XP.It is not just simple caching. Windows probably was doing caching even before Linux existed.

What Vista does is SuperFetch and I don't think it's there in Linux even now, except that someone wrote a program that would do a similar thing but it's not really used that much.

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