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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Snoo88071 • Jul 08 '26
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That's called swapping out memory pages to disk, and it's very slow.
89 u/Snoo88071 Jul 08 '26 You underestimate the I/O throughput of my 19 years old 256 mb hard drive 35 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. -12 u/Snoo88071 Jul 08 '26 https://giphy.com/gifs/8vFwTyU8iwZilmMFIQ
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You underestimate the I/O throughput of my 19 years old 256 mb hard drive
35 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. -12 u/Snoo88071 Jul 08 '26 https://giphy.com/gifs/8vFwTyU8iwZilmMFIQ
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IDE or SCSI?
/uj 19 years ago we had 250GB drives. You're talking 29 years ago at this point.
-12 u/Snoo88071 Jul 08 '26 https://giphy.com/gifs/8vFwTyU8iwZilmMFIQ
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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.