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Re:The compiler will optimize that away by fiddlerwoaroof on Sunday May 02, 2021 @08:44PM (#27020457)
Related: when MacBooks switched to SSDs, the performance of my old spinning-disk MBP dropped noticeably basically overnight.
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Re:The compiler will optimize that away by Narishma on Sunday May 02, 2021 @09:22PM (#27020687)
Same thing on Windows. It became incredibly slow on HDDs when SSDs started to become popular.
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Re:The compiler will optimize that away by selfhoster11 on Monday May 03, 2021 @08:45AM (#27024327)
When I first bought an SSD and noticed the crazy speed-up, my next thought was that developers will get used to it as the "new normal" and stop caring about IOPS which would slow down SSDs (ruining my blink-of-an-eye super-speed fun) and make HDDs near-unusable. Two to four years later, here we were on Windows, and to some extent, on Linux too.
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Re:The compiler will optimize that away by jdsully on Monday May 03, 2021 @10:35AM (#27025593)
The amount of effort involved in making sure reads were sequential back in the HDD days was immense. It’s not surprising people dropped that as soon as possible.
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Re:The compiler will optimize that away by cassepipe on Monday May 03, 2021 @07:46AM (#27023874)
Having an Hdd running at 100% on Windows 8, slowing everything down, is actually what made me switch to Linux Mint. Never looked back.
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