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The newest physics is even more pessimistic, putting it at O(m^½) because of the holographic principle. Essentially, the theory goes that the amount of data yo

The newest physics is even more pessimistic, putting it at O(m^½) because of the holographic principle. Essentially, the theory goes that the amount of data you can cram into a spherical volume of space scales in proportion to its surface area, IIRC with a density on the order of bits per Planck area. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bekenstein_bound https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bekenstein_bound https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_principle#Limit_on_information_density https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_principle#Limit_on...

kragen 11y ago
I don't understand the Bekenstein bound well enough to comment very intelligently, but isn't that a bound on the information content of your CPU rather than its information throughput or latency?
- repsilat 11y ago
  > a bound on the information content of your CPU Sure, though I'd have said "RAM". When you have a bound on information density, you naturally get a bound on worst-case memory latency provided you obey a fixed speed of light.
  - kragen 11y ago
    Oh! Good point!