slioslat

Even for most applications "running non-stop on servers", VM is almost moot these days. For anything computational, swap is the kiss of death. For many applications where the working set is larger than available memory, the work is typically done inside a DBMS which usually has it's own systems for managing paging. Algos in DBMS are certainly aware of non-uniform access time: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B-tree

this article is ridiculous. He makes blanket claims based on the performance of a very specialized application. For many / most applications, memory is so cheap that you CAN effectively ignore VM. Where some thought about the relative latency of memory is useful though is in parallel applications on NUMA hardware.

Asking the waiter/waitress to split the check is uncouth.

how about this; you give me the share and I'll treat you 2 of everything on this list?

seems like a cheap rip-off of this: http://mindprod.com/jgloss/unmain.html

the data model here is actually more powerful than just map reduce.

you're clearly not a trader. give a trader a screen and they'll fill it.

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