Hmm... I thought the scourge of 1975 programming was ignoring the vast and growing gap between the speed of the processor and the speed of RAM. 2010 programmin

Hmm... I thought the scourge of 1975 programming was ignoring the vast and growing gap between the speed of the processor and the speed of RAM. 2010 programming has to deal with the fact that chasing a (non-cached) pointer can consume hundreds of processor cycles. So much for trees...