Newbie question about text encoding
Steven D'Aprano
steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info
Fri Feb 27 06:54:39 EST 2015
Dave Angel wrote:
> On 02/27/2015 12:58 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>> Dave Angel wrote:
>>
>>> (Although I believe Seymour Cray was quoted as saying that virtual
>>> memory is a crock, because "you can't fake what you ain't got.")
>>
>> If I recall correctly, disk access is about 10000 times slower than RAM,
>> so virtual memory is *at least* that much slower than real memory.
>>
>
> It's so much more complicated than that, that I hardly know where to
> start.
[snip technical details]
As interesting as they were, none of those details will make swap faster,
hence my comment that virtual memory is *at least* 10000 times slower than
RAM.
--
Steven
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