[lug] Re: RAM based files, file systems"

[Rob Nagler]

Sean Reifschneider writes:
> Not suprising...  Hard drives tend to have average access times of
> around 10ms, and RAM tends to have average access times of 10ns.  That's
> a 1000x improvement right there.

For the record, that's a 1,000,000x improvement.  To me, it's
sometimes a little hard to fathom how fast RAM and processor speed
improved.  It really changes the equation on a lot of things, such as,
avoid swapping to disk at all costs.  Indeed, I sometimes wonder why
we bother swapping at all these days.

Rob