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30 Jul 2024 00:23:20 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Speedy thing goes in...  
From: Invisible
Date: 6 Jun 2011 05:46:17
Message: <4deca1e9$1@news.povray.org>
> I'm pretty sure JQS has been there for years. Lots of software does this
> (e.g., Acrobat Reader). The idea, presumably, is to load stuff into
> memory ahead of time.
>
> Except that isn't this the entire point of the Windows prefetch cache?
> Also, won't the unused data simply get swapped back out to disk after a
> while? (Thus utterly defeating the entire purpose of it.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quick_start
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prefetcher

In the process, I also came across this:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/hardware/gg463004.aspx


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