Re: Dynamic symbol table

On Tuesday 20 July 2004 08:55 am, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 02:50:23PM +0200, Lubos Lunak wrote:
> > I think it'd be better if you tried that yourself,
>
> bah. i have a different task now. :)
>
> > How is synchronous page-by-page loading supposed to be faster than
> > asynchronous madvise() ?
>
> asynchronicity implies concurrency and concurrency implies trashing.

Asynchronous I/O implies that the I/O scheduler can reorder requests to reduce 
seeking. Which it can't do with synchronous requests.