Spacy: interaction with disks once the model loaded

[bissana]

Hi,
I'm a new user. I am happily using spacy on my personal laptop which has SSD storage. The same application is 3 times slower on another machine that has the same system (Ubuntu), CPUs and RAM but SATA instead of SSD.
Once the model is loaded does spacy interact with the disks to tokenise, parse, ... or all these operations should perform the same whether the system has SSD or not?
Thank you

[adrianeboyd]

The models are loaded in memory, so the speed for running a text through a pipeline shouldn't depend on disk access.

If everything else is identical, double-check that you have the exact same versions of all the dependencies, in particular blis, where you may notice a big difference in speed on newer CPUs (v0.4.x vs. v0.7.x).

[bissana]

Thank you !