> Works != works as well as SCSI. I've yet to find an example where
> IDE works as well as SCSI in real life (vs. benchmarks). My real life
> scenarios rarely involve telling a machine to be still so we can do a disk
> read, then again for a disk write.
Probably true. IDE can not access more than one drive at a time, and
requires CPU to complete the data transfers.
>
> # People have been commenting lately that postgres on Solaris is very slow
> # compared to Linux. Apparently certain file system operations on Solaris
> # is _slow_.
>
> Slow, however more robust than the same in Linux. Linux achieves
> a lot of speed by throwing away safety nets. Sometimes, these safety nets
> are important.
Yes, it is hard to write code that is fast for small cases, but scales
well for large cases. It can be done, it is just not easy.
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