Article Article: Modern Storage is plenty fast, it's the APIs that are bad

[Gideon]

A very interesting technical take, why we benefit so little from very fast m.2. drives:

Modern storage is plenty fast. It is the APIs that are bad.

I have spent almost the entire last decade in a fairly specialized product company, building high performance I/O systems. I had the…

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[VirtualLarry]

Interesting read! Maybe A/V software engineers should read it too, and maybe we won't have A/V software that bogs down and uses all of the RAM anymore.

 

[HutchinsonJC]

Someone should share it to Doom9 and see what kind of feedback is provided there.

 

[biostud]

Some of the same things applying to DirectStorage and RTX IO, which are in the works.?