On Wed, 2007-07-04 at 02:32 +0000, Bojan Smojver wrote:
Isn't that the trick used on Windaz boxes as well?
Possibly, but I think the biggest speedup by far is the disk caching/reorganization that both Windows and OS X do: http://www.kernelthread.com/mac/apme/optimizations/
At this rate though, we might all be using solid state drives before the kernel developers stop pointing at userspace as the problem and implement it for Linux.