GMP rust swap disks

Torbjörn Granlund tg at gmplib.org
Thu Mar 18 12:03:30 UTC 2021


Chuck Pergiel <c.pergiel at gmail.com> writes:

  "One needs around 250 top-capacity rust swap disks in order to compute 1
  quadrillion digits,"

  I know what a 'swap disk' is, and I suspect 'rust' refers to a programming
  language, but I do not understand the connection. Why 'rust swap disks' as
  opposed to just 'swap disks'?

[Spinning] rust disk is hacker jargon for mechanical disk.

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Torbjörn
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