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Re:RAM Is the New Disk by olegkikin on Sunday July 30, 2017 @07:30PM (#14888462)
Re:RAM Is the New Disk by vvanders on Sunday July 30, 2017 @07:48PM (#14888529)
Probably not but I think the point stands that latency hasn't made any major strides since the switch from SDR to DDR.
Re:RAM Is the New Disk by nikhilgarg28 on Sunday July 30, 2017 @07:51PM (#14888549)
That's very interesting. The estimate of 100ns came from here: https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~rcs/research/interactive_l.... and is probably not very precise (maybe because it is only capturing rough order of magnitude). I have now updated the post. Thanks for the feedback! Specific constant aside, the point about latency not improving much still holds.
Re:RAM Is the New Disk by nayuki on Sunday July 30, 2017 @09:47PM (#14888983)
Your link got truncated with ellipses. Here we go: http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~rcs/research/interactive_laten...
Re:RAM Is the New Disk by everheardofc on Monday July 31, 2017 @12:51AM (#14889543)
There are these things called speed of light and virtual memory. The latency of the physical RAM is completely irrelevant unless its embedded directly on the cpu