3 ms·

More code to load from disk to memory, and while it may be fast, it’s not instantaneous.

• orf 5mo ago
  SSDs can read at gigabytes per second, and only the used portions are paged into memory. Anything else?
  • skydhash 5mo ago
    Loading a program in memory is much more complicated than raw disk transfer speed.
    • orf 5mo ago
      So you’re saying that if you append 1GB of junk data to the end of an executable it would be slower to execute? No? So it’s not purely a function of disk size.