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These numbers focus on reads. How does writing speed to cache, main memory, or disk compare? Anyone have some ballparks to help me build intuition?
by _pastel 5y ago
These numbers focus on reads. How does writing speed to cache, main memory, or disk compare? Anyone have some ballparks to help me build intuition?
- favorited 5y agoWrites are much slower than reads, but modern CPUs have a write-buffer for each core so they don't need to wait for the write to propagate back down the caches and into main memory before continuing execution.