On Friday, 24 April 2015 at 08:27:06 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
http://codecapsule.com/2014/02/12/coding-for-ssds-part-6-a-summary-what-every-programmer-should-know-about-solid-state-drives/
An interesting article. Anyone want to see if there are any
modifications we should make to std.stdio to work better with
SSDs? (Such as changing the buffer sizes.)
This article seems to target operating system authors more than
application programmers, as OS caches will invalidate most
application-side changes.
The HN comments are also mostly dismissive of this article:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9431571