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Realistically neither do files. I think it really comes down to our common abstractions. Everything is IO. For the most part shared memory maps are what drives
by asim 3y ago
Realistically neither do files. I think it really comes down to our common abstractions. Everything is IO. For the most part shared memory maps are what drives the most performance and ease of use.
- xxs 3y agoAccording Linus (and everything is a file) "File" actually mean byte array/"stream of bytes"[0]. The latter maps proper well to all cache hierarchy. [0]: https://yarchive.net/comp/linux/everything_is_file.html https://yarchive.net/comp/linux/everything_is_file.html