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What do you mean "deleting data from storage doesn't speed up computers?" Deleting old files certainly makes file searches faster.
by acbabis 11y ago
What do you mean "deleting data from storage doesn't speed up computers?" Deleting old files certainly makes file searches faster.
- dredmorbius 11y agoThe context was of speeding other computer operations by removing data. With a sufficiently robust indexing system, file search time is independent of corpus size. E.g., Google isn't scanning the Internet each time you submit a search query. Time to build an index increases, but not searches against it.
- dietrichepp 11y agoYou are technically correct, but the comment is irrelevant to the discussion.