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Re:Sandia turns on brain-like storage-free supercomputer – B... by rzzzt on Saturday June 07, 2025 @05:18AM (#44208456)
Think of L2 cache (small access time, small capacity) vs. memory modules (larger access time, large capacity) on a motherboard. You get the large capacity and an access time somewhere in between, depending on the hit rate.
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Re:Sandia turns on brain-like storage-free supercomputer – B... by moralestapia on Saturday June 07, 2025 @10:22PM (#44214112)
>depending on the hit rate

Yes, a different usage pattern could give you the worse of both worlds.

That's a very deep insight from queue theory and similar topics, I don't know if you wrote what you wrote with that in mind (I'm not being an ass, I just want to highlight this observation).

A system's behavior is highly dependent, to the point of it being fundamental, on how it is going to be used.

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