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> The speed of light is a killer here. In the best case, you are talking about ~1000 cycles if you hit main memory Nitpick: this isn't really a speed-of-light
by teraflop 7y ago
> The speed of light is a killer here. In the best case, you are talking about ~1000 cycles if you hit main memory
Nitpick: this isn't really a speed-of-light issue. The time taken for an electrical signal to make a round-trip between CPU and RAM on the same motherboard is closer to 10 clock cycles than 1000. Any latency beyond that is a result of delays within the CPU or memory modules themselves, not the time spent traveling between them.