Dave Angel wrote: > On 02/27/2015 12:58 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: >> Dave Angel wrote: >> >>> (Although I believe Seymour Cray was quoted as saying that virtual >>> memory is a crock, because "you can't fake what you ain't got.") >> >> If I recall correctly, disk access is about 10000 times slower than RAM, >> so virtual memory is *at least* that much slower than real memory. >> > > It's so much more complicated than that, that I hardly know where to > start.
[snip technical details] As interesting as they were, none of those details will make swap faster, hence my comment that virtual memory is *at least* 10000 times slower than RAM. -- Steven -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
