On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 9:17 PM, Stephan Eggermont <
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> On 07-01-16 20:07, Ben Coman wrote:
>>
>> An enlightening article (if a bit long). I wonder how non-volatile
>> storage being faster than a CPU might affect Pharo systems. Perhaps
>> the importance of migrating between live and backup Images gains in
>> importance to backups via files.
>
>
> I'm not sure what to think about it. I find it an rather vague and badly
> written article. 100K iops is not close to saturating what a CPU core can
> process. The problem is the communication and the article does a really good
> job at confusing me about that. Further, commercial pricing is value based,
> not cost.
>
> Stephan
Yeah, I think I'll have to retract that about being enlightening,
rather just a façade of enlightenment. Many of the follow up comments
on slashdot hit criticised it along the same lines and that its point
of view is that of vendors selling fast-nvram. I probably shouldn't
have posted it. Sorry for the noise.
cheers -ben
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