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Your question reminds me of a humorous quote - "I use Gentoo because I'm a speed freak - I can't stand the thought that some of my packages might not be running
by dman 8y ago
Your question reminds me of a humorous quote - "I use Gentoo because I'm a speed freak - I can't stand the thought that some of my packages might not be running as fast as they could be.".
PS: The above quote is just one of the gems from https://funroll-loops.teurasporsaat.org/ https://funroll-loops.teurasporsaat.org/ - a humorous portal to a lost world from the 90s - 2000s (ie the gentoo subculture).
- ubercow13 8y agoFun page, I remember those times. Some of the quotes aren't so ridiculous, like: >"I notice that my disk does a whole lot of thrashing when I boot up. I have a lot of stuff that gets loaded into memory every time I boot, like X11, ion2, Firefox, Eterm, Thunderbird, etc. It seems to me that putting all of the files necessary to those apps in a contiguous section on the disk and loading that into memory in one shot would be a whole lot faster. Is there a way to do this? Is it stupid?" That's a good idea! It's kind of what Windows Prefetch feature does.
- yjftsjthsd-h 8y ago(And in case anybody's interested, the utility e4rat (ext4 read ahead... tool?) does exactly this)