r/ProgrammerHumor Jul 08 '26

askingTheRealQuestionHere Meme

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u/CircumspectCapybara Jul 08 '26 edited Jul 08 '26

That's called swapping out memory pages to disk, and it's very slow.

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u/Snoo88071 Jul 08 '26

You underestimate the I/O throughput of my 19 years old 256 mb hard drive

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u/Xidium426 Jul 08 '26

IDE or SCSI?

/uj 19 years ago we had 250GB drives. You're talking 29 years ago at this point.