[Info-vax] Storage is faster than the processor

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <n6kjsv$oe5$1 at dont-email.me>, David Froble
<davef at tsoft-inc.com> writes: 

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

Old joke: What is a supercomputer?  Something which transforms a
CPU-bound problem into an I/O bound problem.  Some calculations have 
huge amounts of data, either intermediate or permanent.  In many such 
cases, I/O is the bottleneck, so of course speed can help.