On 3/8/2016 9:59 PM, Jesse 1 Robinson wrote:
-- A data base application was redesigned at the last minute to read the entire data base into memory at startup. The business unit noticed that they were charged for I/O but not for memory use. It was cheaper to occupy virtual storage than to perform reads. So much for common sense.
They were obviously ahead of their time! These days, memory-mapped files are highly encouraged as one way to utilize that "free" memory everyone is getting on their z13!
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