On Friday, 1 March 2013 at 01:02:17 UTC, Piotr Szturmaj wrote:
Anytime you read one byte from typical hard disk, system reads full sector - typically 512 bytes, no more, no less.
As Marco Leise wrote: now this 4KiB in many case..That's one big issue with performance tuning: if you hardcoded your code with 512B page, you don't get the optimal performance in a 4KiB page system..
