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From: "Chen, Kenneth W" <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>
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Subject: RE: [RFC] adding aio_readv/writev
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 10:59:51 -0700
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ben> Only db2 uses vectored io heavily.  Oracle does not, and none of the
open 
ben> source databases do.  Vectored io is pretty useless for most people.

That's not necessary true. As far as I know, the reason oracle doesn't use
vectored io is because the real implementation is not there.

- Ken
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