[Info-vax] Storage is faster than the processor

[David Froble]

Dennis Boone wrote:
>  > 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

Well, I do understand latency, and such.

My work is with business systems, large (to a point) business systems.  Would I 
expect some improvements, yes.  But, as I mentioned, I'm not seeing what 
improvements can be made over the CPUs capabilities.