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Because it is not a bottleneck. Modern SSDs can read data at more than 500 megabytes per second, which, on a single thread gives you just about 6-8 clock cycles
by mynegation 6y ago
Because it is not a bottleneck. Modern SSDs can read data at more than 500 megabytes per second, which, on a single thread gives you just about 6-8 clock cycles to process a single byte. That’s not a lot of CPU instructions so it will take quite a number of threads to handle this bandwidth.