These are invaluable references -- I hope we have many people here familiar with them, or new readers appreciating them. It's a shame that nothing quite so com

These are invaluable references -- I hope we have many people here familiar with them, or new readers appreciating them. It's a shame that nothing quite so comprehensive exists for IO, as network and storage accesses, patterns and quirks are often more of a bottleneck than CPU, for many applications.