FreeLists / openbeos / [openbeos] Re: Windows Vista Performance Kludges (that Haiku does not need)

["Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"François Revol" <revol@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > Don't diss everything just because it's used at Microsoft...
> > Indeed. Even though I find using memory sticks as a cache 
> > ridiculuous, 
> swapping on flash ?? really the last thing you want.
> flash memory has a very low maximum number of write cycles before 
> failure, swapping or caching on them is a very bad idea. sleeping 
> means 
> much less changes, so it's probably ok.

Vista doesn't use it for sleeping - because you could remove/replace 
the stick while the system is powered down; it can't trust it.

> > having and using the new built-in flash drives is a neat thing. In 
> flash in disk drives ??
> Is that the new thing they came up with to speed up the renewal of 
> the 
> installed base, so if the drive head doesn't screw up Vista swapping 
> to 
> the flash makes sure the drive dies after a year and you buy another 
> one ?

Exactly! :-)
Your usual laptop won't live that long anyway ;-)
Seriously, though, that was also my first thought when I heard of that 
feature - I didn't look into it yet, but I'd be interested if there 
were any changes to allow more write cycles.

Bye,
   Axel.