Newbie question about text encoding

[Grant Edwards]

On 2015-02-27, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info> wrote:
> 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.

Nonsense.  On all of my machines, virtual memory _is_ RAM almost all
of the time.  I don't do the type of things that force the usage of
swap.

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