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by rvr_ 1567 days ago
20 years without meaningful improvements on memory access ?
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It takes at least one clock cycle to do anything, and clock frequency stopped increasing in the 2003-2005 time frame, mainly because of the horrible effects on power with very small feature size.
Good news is that SSDs are only 160x slower for random reads, so maybe we should just beef up L3 or L4 cache and get rid of ram? /s
yep, got any ideas?