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by skydhash 27 days ago
More code to load from disk to memory, and while it may be fast, it’s not instantaneous.
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orf 27 days ago
SSDs can read at gigabytes per second, and only the used portions are paged into memory.

Anything else?

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skydhash 27 days ago
Loading a program in memory is much more complicated than raw disk transfer speed.
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orf 27 days ago
So you’re saying that if you append 1GB of junk data to the end of an executable it would be slower to execute?

No? So it’s not purely a function of disk size.

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