Coding for solid state drives

[Laeeth Isharc via Digitalmars-d]

On Saturday, 25 April 2015 at 11:34:22 UTC, ketmar wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Apr 2015 01:27:15 -0700, Walter Bright wrote:
>
>> if there are any
>> modifications we should make to std.stdio to work better with 
>> SSDs?
>> (Such as changing the buffer sizes.)
>
> yes: don't do anything. it's OS task to cope with that.

well beyond the area I know, but it seems like given the relative 
structure of costs for random seeks for SSDs you often want to 
process files in parallel, whereas the opposite is true for 
spinning platters.  The OS can't help you here.

perhaps not for the standard library, but maybe it would be nice 
to have a function to detect whether a path is on an SSD or not.

I am not sure if there is a standard way to detect this.  There 
is a hacker way here:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/908188/is-there-any-way-of-detecting-if-a-drive-is-a-ssd

and some others check the output of smartmontools.

But surely, it would be a start to make it easy for the user to 
know so she can shape her approach accordingly.