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On (2003/04/02 07:38), Terry Lambert wrote:

> Is the disk I/O really that big of an issue?  All writes will
> be on underlying non-blocking descriptors; I guess you are
> saying that the interleaved I/O is more important, further
> down the system call interface than the top, and this becomes
> an issue?

Dude, you should really try this stuff for yourself before naysaying
performance improvements on principle.  It's actually quite impressive
for desktop users (at least).

Ciao,
Sheldon.