On a pendrive, one of the two must be better (faster) than the other. I haven't looked inside your swap files, but off the top of my head addressing to a swap file could be more difficult than addressing to a partition because, unlike a partition, the file has no fixed memory location (the pendrive controller has to search). No?musher0 wrote:For regular use (i.e. catching the overrun from RAM), they work fine and perform as well as swap partitions
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