Python and the need for speed

[Steve D'Aprano]

On Thu, 13 Apr 2017 07:00 pm, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:

> Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz>:
> 
>> Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
>>> As swapping is no longer considered normal on modern computers,
>>
>> It isn't? When did that happen?
> 
> Thing is, the moment you start thrashing, the game is over.

Indeed. But swapping != thrashing.


For what it's worth, three of the five sys admins I work with prefer not to
use swap space on the Linux desktops they build. I'm not sure what their
opinion is about servers. I *think* they would be okay with it if the
server was using SSD rather than spinning metal.



-- 
Steve
“Cheer up,” they said, “things could be worse.” So I cheered up, and sure
enough, things got worse.