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Some ado about zero

Some ado about zero

Posted Jul 9, 2009 12:35 UTC (Thu) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523)
In reply to: Some ado about zero by johill
Parent article: Some ado about zero

That's just 16MB. That's close to 'nothing' for a computer with 4096 CPUs.


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Some ado about zero

Posted Jul 9, 2009 14:51 UTC (Thu) by ejr (subscriber, #51652) [Link]

There are single chips with dozens of CPUs from the OS's view. Soon these will be in the hundreds. And they'll end up being used in smaller devices relatively soon, simply because of economies of scale. The extra space can add up pretty quickly.

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