Chris's Wiki :: blog/tech/SeekingVsReadingSurprise Commentshttps://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/tech/SeekingVsReadingSurprise?atomcommentsDWiki2010-09-29T18:25:14ZRecent comments in Chris's Wiki :: blog/tech/SeekingVsReadingSurprise.By nothings on /blog/tech/SeekingVsReadingSurprisetag:CSpace:blog/tech/SeekingVsReadingSurprise:bc14ad316af9278635cc8a67302e63b154df2338nothings<div class="wikitext"><p>You can always manually prefetch using the index.</p>
</div>2010-09-29T18:25:14ZBy Chris Siebenmann on /blog/tech/SeekingVsReadingSurprisetag:CSpace:blog/tech/SeekingVsReadingSurprise:2115b578bc8dd7706d0afcc946033cbedffb42b0Chris Siebenmann<div class="wikitext"><p>Maildir would not have solved this particular problem; indeed, it
would have it made it worse.</p>
</div>2010-09-29T16:58:40ZFrom 72.14.228.140 on /blog/tech/SeekingVsReadingSurprisetag:CSpace:blog/tech/SeekingVsReadingSurprise:e5ae5abbb910f3548e1f2a237443d8ab4576a19aFrom 72.14.228.140<div class="wikitext"><p>You left out the real solution. Maildir.</p>
</div>2010-09-29T13:21:32ZFrom 195.26.247.141 on /blog/tech/SeekingVsReadingSurprisetag:CSpace:blog/tech/SeekingVsReadingSurprise:9ac2b4b76bb1c65423e3c66837a58cb940701758From 195.26.247.141<div class="wikitext"><p>The sequential vs random IO is the main reason why SSDs are so incredibly fast at general workloads -- random IO is the same speed as sequential (pretty much? I may be terribly wrong here...).</p>
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