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  2. Windows 10, version 21H2 - Wikipedia

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    The Windows 10 November 2021 Update [1] (codenamed "21H2" [2]) is the twelfth major update to Windows 10 as the cumulative update to the May 2021 Update. It carries ...

  3. Prefetcher - Wikipedia

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    The Prefetcher is a component of Microsoft Windows which was introduced in Windows XP. [1] It is a component of the Memory Manager that can speed up the Windows boot process and shorten the amount of time it takes to start up programs. It accomplishes this by caching files that are needed by an application to RAM as the application is launched ...

  4. Hard disk drive performance characteristics - Wikipedia

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    Maximum latency = 60/rpm; Average latency = 0.5*Maximum latency; Therefore, the rotational latency and resulting access time can be improved (decreased) by increasing the rotational speed of the disks. [5] This also has the benefit of improving (increasing) the throughput (discussed later in this article).

  5. Booting process of Windows - Wikipedia

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    In Windows NT, the booting process is initiated by NTLDR in versions before Vista and the Windows Boot Manager (BOOTMGR) in Vista and later. [4] The boot loader is responsible for accessing the file system on the boot drive, starting ntoskrnl.exe, and loading boot-time device drivers into memory.

  6. System partition and boot partition - Wikipedia

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    The boot partition (or boot volume) [5] is the disk partition that contains the operating system folder, known as the system root or %systemroot% in Windows NT. [6]: 174 Before Windows 7, the system and boot partitions were, by default, the same and were given the "C:" drive letter.

  7. Cache performance measurement and metric - Wikipedia

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    The execution time is the time for a cache access, and the memory stall cycles include the time to service a cache miss and access lower levels of memory. If the access latency, miss rate and miss penalty are known, the average memory access time can be calculated with: = +

  8. Memory timings - Wikipedia

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    What determines absolute latency (and thus system performance) is determined by both the timings and the memory clock frequency. When translating memory timings into actual latency, timings are in units of clock cycles, which for double data rate memory is half the speed of the commonly quoted transfer rate. Without knowing the clock frequency ...

  9. Memory latency - Wikipedia

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    Memory latency is the time (the latency) between initiating a request for a byte or word in memory until it is retrieved by a processor. If the data are not in the processor's cache , it takes longer to obtain them, as the processor will have to communicate with the external memory cells.