On Oct 14, 2015, at 13:42 , Dave Horsfall wrote: > 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.
I got that part, and > And I'm sure that Linux has pre-read as well. As I implied... This ain't unique; there are people working on performance issues for all of these (unixy) systems. It's gone way beyond what good ol' Ed 5 did (which I used back at NBS...). Justin -- Justin C. Walker, Curmudgeon at Large Institute for the Absorption of Federal Funds ----------- My wife 'n kids 'n dogs are gone, I can't get Jesus on the phone, But Ol' Milwaukee's Best is my best friend. ----------- _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
