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What your computer does while you wait (and how to make it go faster)
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http://duartes.org/gustavo/blog/post/what-your-computer-does-while-you-wait
For the many people who wonder why the computer takes so long to respond even while it’s not ‘doing anything’ (myself included). Of particular interest, while your computer may operate mainly within close caches and system memory, reading data or code from the hard drive can take up to approximately 164,000 times as long as [...]