Read-ahead buffer - Gospel for Techies
Read-ahead buffer - Gospel for Techies
Hello friends, this is Win of Gospel
for Techies
our idea for today is about Read-Ahead
or the read-ahead buffer.
Some people are at a disadvantage
because they do guesswork. Guesswork which could have been done more
properly if they actually just took PRIOR time to read. Or
Read-Ahead.
Manuals are there, API documentations,
examples, books, and all sorts of material or literature about some
product, some process, some interface, some hardware, some
abstraction, some design, some theory, or some other kind of thing...
on the gospel side, the bible is our
manual for user, it is the API of life for programmers, and the
manpages for sysads, the protocol for network people, and the RFC or
standard or spec for most other things.
Reading ahead gives us advantage so we
don't cram. Bible ideas are an advantage if they are in our cached
memory compared to being back there in disk or in optical or worse in
the tape library!
As much as an system library should be
in cached ram, so should the Bible precepts be in the forefronts of
our thoughts.
Happy Bible Reading / MP3ing!