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by Someone 3081 days ago
32GB/s is 128× 256MB/s, not 320×, and 16GB is 1024× 16MB. The latter, I think, is the reason swap has gotten less useful. It seems even modern programmers don’t know what to do with all that RAM (possibly because, at top speed, it takes 8 times as long to fill it all up (about 20 times as long if the data has to come from a hard disk)