Newbie question about text encoding

Steven D'Aprano steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info
Fri Feb 27 00:58:30 EST 2015


Dave Angel wrote:

> (Although I believe Seymour Cray was quoted as saying that virtual
> memory is a crock, because "you can't fake what you ain't got.")

If I recall correctly, disk access is about 10000 times slower than RAM, so
virtual memory is *at least* that much slower than real memory.



-- 
Steven




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