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Re:AI in software engineering at Google: Progress and the pa... by ffsm8 on Friday June 07, 2024 @06:57AM (#40607365)
These kinds of similies make less and less sense nowadays because we've got nvme storage nowadays, and that can be as fast as 7GByte/s. That's a lot faster then the RAM in most devices today. And with less latency too.

RAMs differentiating factor is increasingly just that it can handle a lot of read/write cycles, not it's speed. And that doesn't map to anything in biology

Re:AI in software engineering at Google: Progress and the pa... by andersa on Friday June 07, 2024 @09:22AM (#40608469)
Wat? NVMe storage is much slower than RAM. And orders of magnitude slower than VRAM.
Re:AI in software engineering at Google: Progress and the pa... by vonmoltke on Friday June 07, 2024 @10:07AM (#40608885)
> These kinds of similies make less and less sense nowadays because we've got nvme storage nowadays, and that can be as fast as 7GByte/s. That's a lot faster then the RAM in most devices today. And with less latency too.

7 GB/s is the low end of the DDR3 performance range; DDR3 is 17 years old. Meanwhile, DDR5 performance ranges from about 33.5 GB/s to about 69 GB/s. RAM latency, even on DDR3, is measured in nanoseconds; NVMe latency is measured in microseconds, making it about three orders of magnitude higher.

Re:AI in software engineering at Google: Progress and the pa... by ffsm8 on Friday June 07, 2024 @11:10AM (#40609453)
By quantity, most devices are low-end and old androids. But I admit, I might have phrased my comment poorly. I didn't mean to imply that high end RAM has the same performance profile as high end NVMe storage