Re: what kind of computer for programmer ?

Rob wrote:
) This depends on the system. The last time I did this the machine had
) enough memory to disk-cache the intermediate files - but the operating
) system didn't do this well. So, overall a ramdisk was faster.

If you use a ramdisk, the files never have to be written to disk at all,
even with a write-caching FS the intermediates will still be written out
after X seconds, degrading performance.


SaSW, Willem
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