I admit I'm not too well versed in hardware tech. One thing that comes to mind is using associative memory to implement objects, namespaces, etc. (e.g. http://w

I admit I'm not too well versed in hardware tech. One thing that comes to mind is using associative memory to implement objects, namespaces, etc. (e.g. http://www.vpri.org/pdf/tr2011003_abmdb.pdf http://www.vpri.org/pdf/tr2011003_abmdb.pdf ); although that general approach seems to be mentioned in the comments.