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Remember vintage Fortran.

So I made once had the displeasure of doubling the performance of a fission reactor safety simulator by disabling win32's swap... 30 years and 2e7 LoC codebase. >.<. The working set was nowhere near smart, but it did work faster than AIX, HP-UX, SCO & Solaris/SunOS ports.



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