Re:What every programmer should know about memory
by pacemkr on Wednesday July 14, 2010 @05:04PM
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That would be one serious leak if a programmer had to even be aware of the difference between SRAM and DRAM, yet alone of their respective schematics. It just doesn't happen. When it does, it isn't a leaky abstraction, it's broken to the core, and knowing these surface level details about electronics wouldn't be enough to fix the problem.
They leak. Not that all of this information is necessarily required for all programmers, but when dealing with a leaky abstraction it is nice to know what's leaking through and why it is so.