Coding for solid state drives

[Vladimir Panteleev via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 24 April 2015 at 19:35:08 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> Things are configurable in std.stdio. But most people will just 
> use the default settings. The default settings should be 
> optimized for SSDs, not spinning drives.

That would be unwise - as HDDs are much slower (and still much 
more common), optimizing for SSDs at the expense of HDD 
performance will cause overall performance to be much worse until 
HDDs become rare.

I mean, assuming that such optimizations aren't just theoretical.