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0 pointsskydhash1mo ago0 comments

More code to load from disk to memory, and while it may be fast, it’s not instantaneous.

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orf1mo ago· 2 in thread

SSDs can read at gigabytes per second, and only the used portions are paged into memory.

Anything else?

skydhashOP1mo ago

Loading a program in memory is much more complicated than raw disk transfer speed.

orf1mo ago

So you’re saying that if you append 1GB of junk data to the end of an executable it would be slower to execute?

No? So it’s not purely a function of disk size.

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