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by hyc_symas 3180 days ago
A lot of folks talk about byte addressability as if it's going to be some massive advantage. It's not, simply for the reason that it's inefficient to store byte-level addresses for everything.

(And of course, you're really only getting cache-line atomicity at the hardware layer. Ignoring this fact, and just using arbitrary byte boundaries for accesses, will kill a lot of perf gain of NVMs.)