kony <spam@spam.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 21 Jan 2007 06:29:49 +1100, "Rod Speed"
> <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> GT <ContactGT_remove_@hotmail.com> wrote
>>
>>>>> Let me summarise:
>>>>> It is a fact that reading a page from virtual memory will be
>>>>> slower than reading a page from physical RAM.
>>
>>>> Not when you have enough physical ram to be able
>>>> to do without a swap file and have one anyway.
>>
>>>>> It is a fact that Windows will use a swapfile if one is present,
>>>>> regardless of the amount of physical RAM in the system.
>>
>>>> That's the only bit you did manage to get right and is no news.
>>
>>> Right then we are talking here about a system with 2GB of RAM,
>>> which can operate without a swapfile. You agree with the second
>>> point here - that windows will use a swapfile whether it needs to
>>> or not, so pages will be swapped out from RAM to hard disk.
>>
>> But not returned from the swap file to physical ram, so no effect on
>> performance.

> ... because we all know it takes ZERO time to write files,

No one ever said anything even remotely resembling anything like that.

> it's only reading them that is an issue.

Or that either.

> Not.

Keep desperately lying, you'll be out in china any day now. Again.