Coding for solid state drives

[Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d]

On 4/24/2015 10:26 PM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
> 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.

Hard disks are dead today for anyone who cares about performance.

I still use them, but only for secondary storage.