Newbie question about text encoding

[Steven D'Aprano]

Dave Angel wrote:

> On 02/27/2015 12:58 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>> 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.
>>
> 
> It's so much more complicated than that, that I hardly know where to
> start.

[snip technical details]

As interesting as they were, none of those details will make swap faster,
hence my comment that virtual memory is *at least* 10000 times slower than
RAM.




-- 
Steven