Directory walker on modern operating systems slower when it's multi-threaded?
问题 Once I had the theory that on modern operating systems multithreaded read access on the HDD should perform better. I thought that: the operating system queues all read requests, and rearranges them in such a way, that it could read from the HDD more sequentially. The more requests it would get, the better it could rearrange them to optimize the read sequence. I was very sure that I read it somewhere few times. But I did some benchmarking, and had to find out, that multithreaded read access