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Re:Why Use ECC Memory by baq on Wednesday May 08, 2024 @06:46AM (#40296464)
this a loaded question.

anyone interested in the topic should absolutely start from reading up on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Error_correction_code and only then start looking into the engineering side, starting with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECC_memory, notably some benchmarks reported 25% performance hits (not sure if it's real or sales propaganda.)

Re:Why Use ECC Memory by cornholio on Wednesday May 08, 2024 @07:54AM (#40296968)
I clearly am not talking about in-band ECC (storing the error detection data inside the program accessible RAM) that the 25% performance drop refers to.