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6 Sep 2024 19:18:49 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Ok, who didn't know, or at least guess this?  
From: Patrick Elliott
Date: 3 Feb 2009 23:49:51
Message: <49891e6f$1@news.povray.org>
Darren New wrote:
> Patrick Elliott wrote:
>> Uh.. Where would this installer be? Oh, right... probably on the 
>> "corporate" multi-license version that most of us don't have access 
>> to... ;)
> 
> Right. Because if you're only installing one or two machines, it's 
> really not a problem to move stuff after the fact.
> 
>> Still doesn't imply that the defragger is "aware" of that data and 
>> uses it. 
> 
> Actually, it probably doesn't need to any more, since the system does 
> demand paging now. It really doesn't help to move directories on the 
> disk relative to other directories just based on what they contain. 
> Given things like superfetch, readyboost, and all that, the files don't 
> get *read* sequentially, so having them particularly defragmented in a 
> particular order probably doesn't make sense any more.
> 
Hmm. Possibly.. In fact, I suppose, in some cases, you could actually 
get "bad" results, like if a prefetch got file 50-56 on the disk, but 
the one you need next is like.. '2'. lol

-- 
void main () {
   If Schrödingers_cat is alive or version > 98 {
     if version = "Vista" {
       call slow_by_half();
       call DRM_everything();
     }
     call functional_code();
   }
   else
     call crash_windows();
}

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