On 23 Aug 2004 at 17:10, Darcy James Argue wrote:

> On 23 Aug 2004, at 05:01 PM, David W. Fenton wrote:
> 
> > On 21 Aug 2004 at 17:35, Robert Patterson wrote:
> >
> >> It is true that modern hard disks are faster and have sophisticated
> >> built-in caching, but memory is faster too.
> >
> > Does OS X not have disk caching built in?
> 
> No, it does.
> 
> > I've never quite understood this enormous difference between Mac and
> > Windows -- why does Apple apparently not make use of modern disk
> > caching techniques (I'm assuming it doesn't if a RAM disk speeds
> > things up)?
> 
> It doesn't.

I'm confused: you seem to be saying OS X has disk caching but doesn't 
use it.

Am I misunderstanding?

If not, I can't make sense of such a situation.

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David W. Fenton                        http://www.bway.net/~dfenton
David Fenton Associates                http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc

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