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Often it's explicitly not faster— you intentionally do work in a more interruptible/resumable/chunked way even if it's less efficient to do it that way than to
by mikepurvis 5y ago
Often it's explicitly not faster— you intentionally do work in a more interruptible/resumable/chunked way even if it's less efficient to do it that way than to just block the system and do it all in one shot.
These kinds of tradeoffs don't make sense for a lot of common Linux workloads, which is why it isn't the default.
- corysama 5y agoYes, and: in return you get documented guarantees about how much time certain operations are allowed to take. As opposed to “We work hard to make it fast most of the time. But, no promises because sometimes stuff happens.”