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by Etherlord87 989 days ago
I started to think about flipping a single bit in some process a million times per frame inside some loop, but that could only be done in cache…

Still if you only changed the state of the memory once per frame, you would do it in RAM, not in cache. At 1000 FPS (we should consider the worst scenario even if rare) that's 3 hours of playing a game to reach 10 800 000 reads/writes.

Now question is what happens if that bit gets damaged, perhaps the memory just disables it as damaged, and uses another bit for this memory address from now on. Perhaps it makes the ultra ram slower over time as more bits (sectors) get damaged?