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Too soon to know

Posted Jan 20, 2012 20:42 UTC (Fri) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091)
In reply to: The future calculus of memory management by vlovich
Parent article: The future calculus of memory management

Latency is probably a bigger problem than bandwidth, and people are already working on the microsecond datacenter.


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Posted Jan 20, 2012 21:14 UTC (Fri) by vlovich (guest, #63271) [Link]

But again, that's for IPC. That really doesn't work for RAM. 1us latency (which still isn't possible according to that article) would still be 3 orders of magnitude slower than regular RAM.

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