[Info-vax] Storage is faster than the processor

[Dennis Boone]

 > I am having a hard time imagining how significantly faster storage I/O can 
 > affect the things that I do with a computer.

For a lot of the relatively lightweight work done by individuals on
their personal systems, it's probably not all that relevant.

For heavier workloads of science or business, and in high end
networking equipment, some (many?) apps now have to consider things
like the orders of magnitude difference in performance between
processor cache, main RAM, network i/o, and mass storage i/o.

"Latency numbers ever progragrammer should know" has been making
the rounds for a while:

https://gist.github.com/jboner/2841832

You'd better believe this kind of thing matters to e.g. Google.

De