On Oct 11, 2015, at 06:59 , Dave Horsfall wrote: > On Sat, 10 Oct 2015, Justin C. Walker wrote: > >> Also, OS X in recent incarnations does a pretty good job of detecting >> when you are streaming a file and doing a lot of prefetching. > > Unix[tm] has been doing that for years (ISTR that it was even in Edition > 5); has Apple only just caught up?
The disk/paging/FS code is far beyond what Edition 5 (or System 5) was doing. For sure, they did try to stream back then, but the code is much more sophisticated these days (and I expect that OS X is not alone, although I don't follow what's up on the Linux side). Justin -- Justin C. Walker, Curmudgeon-At-Large Institute for the Absorption of Federal Funds -------- If you're not confused, You're not paying attention -------- _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
