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What is the performance difference between live booting from a USB pen, and installed on an eMMC drive? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 1 month ago by thatonecoder@lemmy.ca to c/linux@programming.dev

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I am not quite ready to switch to a GNU/Linux yet, but I have live booted Linux Mint Xfce yesterday, with most things working, but much worse for launching times, etc. Would it be any different if I installed it on my eMMC drive? Since they are both based on NAND flash memory, I am clueless about it.

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[–] sga@piefed.social 2 points 1 month ago

this may very well be the case. I can not say for sure, my guess is that most cpus should be able to do something like 200mb/s zstd(3) uncompress, but you can try to benchmark uncompress speeds (there is also a zstd benchmark command), and if it is statistically significantly lower than your storage (use hdparam/dd to benchmark them), then it is indeed your cpu.