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0 pointsorf10d ago0 comments

SSDs can read at gigabytes per second, and only the used portions are paged into memory.

Anything else?

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Loading a program in memory is much more complicated than raw disk transfer speed.

orfOP10d ago

So you’re saying that if you append 1GB of junk data to the end of an executable it would be slower to execute?

No? So it’s not purely a function of disk size.

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Loading a program in memory is much more complicated than raw disk transfer speed.

orfOP10d ago

So you’re saying that if you append 1GB of junk data to the end of an executable it would be slower to execute?

No? So it’s not purely a function of disk size.

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