<story><title>5 minutes of coding yields a 6%+ boost to Linux I/O performance</title><url>https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Caching-Time-Block-IO</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>zwieback</author><text>Title should be &amp;quot;Six years of thinking allow programmer to solve problem in 5 minutes&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;I remember contracting for IBM in the 90s and we had a huge performance boost due to caching and, like the anecdote in this post, there was a slight chance of something going out of date. The IBM guys said &amp;quot;no thanks, IBM prefers bullet proof over fast&amp;quot;.</text></comment>
<story><title>5 minutes of coding yields a 6%+ boost to Linux I/O performance</title><url>https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Caching-Time-Block-IO</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>droningparrot</author><text>It may have taken 5 minutes to write the code, but it sounds like they spent years thinking about the change to make.</text></comment>