I had time so I ran some tests.
How much is the hard drive involved with a Super Pi calculation?
I had nothing else running and so measured every query/read/write the application and OS made towards the hard drive.
Well, whadya know.
- Super Pi 1M took 52 seconds (P4C).
- In those 52 seconds Super Pi made 11,075 disk queries/read/writes.
- Of them there were only 19 queries.
- The first Super Pi 1M action was to query and open the file Msimtf.dll.
- Super Pi made 10-25 read/writes per millisecond during the 1M run.
So, anyone using a RAMdisk or something with less latency than a typical HDD, theoretically, will have faster times considering they know how to.
Attached is the starting output of Super Pi.
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