Caching and other disk access avoidance techniques on personal computers
- 1 February 1989
- journal article
- Published by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in Communications of the ACM
- Vol. 32 (2), 246-255
- https://doi.org/10.1145/63342.63349
Abstract
CPU processing speed is rapidly increasing on PCs, resulting in a widening gap between disk access and CPU speed. The performance of three common disk caching systems are examined in an effort to determine a technique for reducing the gap.Keywords
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