Re: Disc cache worth it?

In message <20140624211245.GM1754@platypus.pepperfish.net>
Rob Kendrick <rjek@netsurf-browser.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 06:36:18PM +0100, Chris Young wrote:
>>
>> It would be interesting to see if a Raspberry Pi running the GTK
>> version from SD card has the same slowness.
>
> Assuming you were running it on one of the flavours of UNIX available
> for it (Linux, NetBSD), then no.
>
> These operating systems receive the write requests from applications and
> queue them for writing to underlying block devices in the background,
> while other apps sit there waiting for input or idling. Under RISC OS,
> file system writes stop /everthing/ until they complete.
>
[snip]

Does that mean that selecting 'Make file operations multitask' in
!Configure-Filer, actually doesn't?

--
George