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I’m not a very proficient programmer/developer, so please bear with me. I’m intrigued by your reference to trading off greater memory footprint in exchange for
by qubex 9y ago
I’m not a very proficient programmer/developer, so please bear with me. I’m intrigued by your reference to trading off greater memory footprint in exchange for diminishing performance by less. I'm trying to understand how this would work in practice: do you envision ‘padding’ the critical data structures with more empty or randomised buffer zones? Wouldn't that incur an additional penalty for the data transfer (Von Neumann bottleneck)? Would blank data be sufficient or would there be some additional kind of memory effect in the DRAM/SRAM that would demand using randomised data overwrites? How would you generate that random data?
(I apologise if this is blindingly obvious for somebody well versed in low-level programming.)
- exabrial 9y agoOh I have no idea actually; it's just pretty normal to see a speed-memory trade in a lot of problems. I'm definitely not low-level enough either.