Experienced same, it was faster to not multitask, do one thing a time. You would...

		whatevaa on April 29, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Did we lose our way in making efficient software? Experienced same, it was faster to not multitask, do one thing a time. You would think launching 2 tasks would take 2x time with same resources, but it felt more like 3-4x. Disk was 1GB back then. I blame it on disk seek times and less advanced IO scheduling.