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I'm with you on the mental model, but from a hardware point of view what you also don't want is hundreds of random disk seeks. I know we're almost in an SSD-onl
by jorangreef 6y ago
I'm with you on the mental model, but from a hardware point of view what you also don't want is hundreds of random disk seeks. I know we're almost in an SSD-only world but HDDs are still a thing and large sequential reads are always important at any level of the memory hierarchy.
- benesch 6y agoI wouldn't expect that to matter much during the debug cycle. The whole binary is going to be sitting in the buffer cache.
- jorangreef 6y agoSure, but the buffer cache is also part of the memory hierarchy. At every level, it's always good not to go wild with cache misses. Not that that's what you're proposing of course.