On Sun, Dec 02, 2012 at 11:15:08AM +0100, Richard Braun wrote: > the port to pthreads), I noticed that much of the time spent by the CPU > is actually wasted for two major reasons.
I didn't emphasize enough that, contrary to "popular" belief, the main bottleneck is _CPU_ time (well, the suboptimal VM cache implies more I/O of course, but there can't be more performance than what we have on virtual machines with optimal host page cache). -- Richard Braun
