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> It is very rare to find a task which is memory speed bound. There's almost always substantial processing to be done with data. One could argue that memory sp
by vvanders 10y ago
> It is very rare to find a task which is memory speed bound. There's almost always substantial processing to be done with data.
One could argue that memory speed doesn't matter because memory latency has remained (relatively) constant since the advent of DDR. Can't process something while you're waiting for that cache miss to complete.