4 ms·
> You can't answer the question "where do the performance benefits come from?" by saying "look, the performance benefits exist". I think he is trying to say is
by shawnz 12y ago
> You can't answer the question "where do the performance benefits come from?" by saying "look, the performance benefits exist".
I think he is trying to say is that the parent poster's observations must be wrong. After all, we are talking about an unsubstantiated claim ("there's no benefit to fanning out files") that directly contradicts another claim which we have data for ("HN is 5x faster after fanning out files").
- thaumasiotes 12y agoAgain, when someone asks why they're wrong, it's not useful to tell them "but you're wrong". Parent poster already acknowledged that the combination of his ideas and the facts on the ground didn't make sense. What good does it do anyone to repeat it back to him?
- unreal37 12y agoI guess when you're absolutely sure that you're right, but the observation proves you wrong, you have to be prepared to consider the possibility that you're wrong. The comment I was replying to was saying that the file system takes care of it automatically, so there's no purpose to arranging millions of files into directories. I'm not going to speculate how it all works under the hood.