Who still uses spinning disks for any real data processing system? SSDs have been common for years. http://www.slideshare.net/crucially/just-use-ssds-really-really
On Oct 6, 2011, at 9:38 PM, Kyle Creyts wrote: > Everybody always worries about cores, threads, and processing... what about > similarly capable storage to feed these processing units? Rapid-write, > redundancy, and rapid-read. Pick two, throw the third out. > > What about a storage model that better supports distributed and asynchronous > workloads? Or even just large sequential ones? > > And seriously? Spinning discs? So passe. We've been using them for how many > years now? > > On Oct 6, 2011 7:58 PM, "Hatta" <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 1:38 PM, Dave Aitel <[email protected]> wrote: > >> So while I'm in the process of running a large asynchronous event-driven > >> product in a VM in another window, it's a good time to read all sorts of > >> things about asynchronous programming. > >> > >> Frankly, I'm not a huge fan of it, but Chris is, and he's a better > >> programmer than me, so we'll leave it at that. Largely, I think people are > >> fans of Async because most languages and kernels are terrible at threads. > >> Python, for example, does not have threads. "No worky worky", as we say > >> around here. > >> > > > > It's not really assertive to say "python does not have threads" > > It's just that threads does not work as we expected in CPython > > specially (but not only) because of the Global Interpreter Lock. > > > > whatver... > > > > I believe we're moving towards the massive use of threads in a near future > > because processors are likely to grow in cores not in speed. with many cores > > many threads become reasonable. > > > > I'm pretty sure many will disagree --- that's the fun part of > > discussion after all. > > > > -- > > Hatta > > _______________________________________________ > > Dailydave mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.immunityinc.com/mailman/listinfo/dailydave > _______________________________________________ > Dailydave mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.immunityinc.com/mailman/listinfo/dailydave
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