• Cethin
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    71 year ago

    Bandwidth isn’t really most of the issue. It’s latency. It’s the amount of time from the CPU requesting a segment of memory to receiving it, which bandwidth doesn’t effect.

    • @barsoap@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      Depends on your workload and access pattern.

      …I’m saying can be faster. Not is faster.

      • Cethin
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        11 year ago

        Yeah, but the point of RAM is fast random (the R in RAM) access times. There are ways to make slower memory work better for this by predicting what will be needed (grab a chunk of memory because accesses will probably need things with closer locality than pure random), but it can’t be fixed. Cloud memory is good for non-random storage or storage that isn’t time critical.