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Right, but this bumps into a spatial-locality analogue of Amdahl's law. If you optimise case that shows up 1% of the time, then you can only get a total gain of
by koenigdavidmj 15y ago
Right, but this bumps into a spatial-locality analogue of Amdahl's law. If you optimise case that shows up 1% of the time, then you can only get a total gain of 1%.
- archangel_one 15y agoNo, the point is that you can't optimise the other 99% because that optimisation only works if hardlinks aren't allowed.
- viraptor 15y agoWhy not? Choose parent at random and place the file near children of that parent. In 99% of cases it's the only parent, so you get the result you aimed for. Why would it be prevented by possible other names?