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It's surprising that the CTO of a company specialized on system performance doesn't know how OS cache memory work.
by apower 17y ago
It's surprising that the CTO of a company specialized on system performance doesn't know how OS cache memory work.
- jrockway 17y agoIt's not like you can read the Windows source code to see what it's doing, so I am going to give him a pass.
- InclinedPlane 17y agoHe could read the available documentation and literature. This is not some grand secret. This feature has been around in Vista for years, there's no excuse for this level of ignorance. It's just laziness. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_features_new_to_Windows_Vista#System_performance http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_features_new_to_Windo... Better yet, the same article circa Feb. 2007: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Technical_features_new_to_Windows_Vista&oldid=110770917#System_performance http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Technical_features...
- jrockway 17y agoDocumentation is never accurate. No source code, no knowing-for-sure.
- Locke1689 17y agoAny operating system developer who knows anything about paging would know exactly what was going on. Especially since you can immediately tell using the Windows task manager that it was doing caching.
- kabdib 17y agoHe's CTO of a technology company, and should have this stuff down cold. No pass.