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by hakaneskici 465 days ago
Great work! Thank you for making this.

This is beautiful and brilliant, and also is a great visual tool to explain how some of the fundamental algorithms and data structures originate from the physical characteristics of storage mediums.

I wonder if anyone remembers the old days where you programmed your own custom defrag util to place your boot libs and frequently used apps to the outer tracks of the hard drive, so they are loaded faster due to the higher linear velocity of the outermost track :)