On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 9:17 PM, Stephan Eggermont <[email protected]> wrote: > On 07-01-16 20:07, Ben Coman wrote: >> >> An enlightening article (if a bit long). I wonder how non-volatile >> storage being faster than a CPU might affect Pharo systems. Perhaps >> the importance of migrating between live and backup Images gains in >> importance to backups via files. > > > I'm not sure what to think about it. I find it an rather vague and badly > written article. 100K iops is not close to saturating what a CPU core can > process. The problem is the communication and the article does a really good > job at confusing me about that. Further, commercial pricing is value based, > not cost. > > Stephan
Yeah, I think I'll have to retract that about being enlightening, rather just a façade of enlightenment. Many of the follow up comments on slashdot hit criticised it along the same lines and that its point of view is that of vendors selling fast-nvram. I probably shouldn't have posted it. Sorry for the noise. cheers -ben
