i/o

alternative I/O · alternative IO

1. not comparablealso nominalisedcomputingin/out, input/output (descriptive of data flow)

   i/o devices are pieces of hardware used to communicate with a computer.

1. abbreviationinitialismInitialism of instead of.

plural I/Os · alternative IO · alternative i/o

1. abbreviationuncountableusuallybusinessAbbreviation of input/output.

   In addition to the synchronous blocking I/O explored in the last two chapters, NIO also supports nonblocking I/O.

   2006, Elliotte Rusty Harold, Java I/O

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   This feels about right, as does the idea that half a second will be taken up just doing disk I/O related to your page. The final thrust of Bob's argument is that if you strip away all disk I/O (and he cites the move to SSD persistent storage), we'll shift away from interpreted languages such as Ruby and PHP and back to Java.

   2011 October 17, Matthew Baxter-Reynolds, “Java's second coming? Over my cold, dead RAM-cached database”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 27 Jun 2022

   It reduces I/O latency, for selected eligible I/Os, to the point that z/OS no longer needs to undispatch the running task.

   2021, Peter Kimmel, Sherri Brunson, Lisa Martinez, IBM DS8900F Performance Best Practices and Monitoring, page 22