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by bathtub365 2311 days ago
Well, I’m not sure I’d call buying 1TiB of RAM and mlock’ing it all an optimization.
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H8crilA 2310 days ago
It is not an "optimization" in the sense that it's not engineer's work.

It is in the sense that it gets the speedup job done.

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bathtub365 2310 days ago
That’s just throwing hardware at a performance problem, not optimization.
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H8crilA 2310 days ago
Name it however you want, gets the job done (sometimes).
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