Comment by laserbeam
5 hours ago
The real issue here is there's a part 2 (linked at the end of the article) where they get the io_uring implementation to be twice as fast as mmap. So it's a clickbait title for a part 1, which gets resolved in part 2.
So they crunched out 2 articles, one of which is just ragebait. And they both seem LLM written. Maybe they have some cool advice, maybe not... but it's not a format I enjoy reading.
I wouldn't call it ragebait. Trying to optimize things only to end up with worse performance seems to be a rather common outcome. Understanding why that happened is key to overcoming it.
I agree that it should have been a single article though.
I find a lot of LLM articles to be hard to read, but since this one was pretty "straight to the point", I found it to be okay and got the important information across.
The title "The Linux reality check" made me groan, though. LLMs (Claude?) seem to love this phrase.
The problem is not the LLM writing. The problem is the ragebait title which is unsubstantiated, because of part 2. And they know that because they published it in two parts.
This is basically how you write fake news. And you only publish like this for extra clicks.