On Sun, 11 Oct 2015, Justin C. Walker wrote: > > 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).
Not Sys 5, but good ol' Edition 5, back in 1975 or so. And I'm sure that Linux has pre-read as well. -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer." _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
