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Re:What every programmer should know about memory by kd0amg on Tuesday July 13, 2010 @04:38PM (#1512666)
Nonsense. What happened to abstraction?

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.

Re:What every programmer should know about memory by pacemkr on Wednesday July 14, 2010 @05:04PM (#1515944)
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.