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Fun fact for non CS people, which this article seems to address. Nothing fits: disk to RAM, RAM to L3, L3 to L2, L2 to L1, L1 to registers. We are just lucky t
by onikolas7 7y ago
Fun fact for non CS people, which this article seems to address.
Nothing fits: disk to RAM, RAM to L3, L3 to L2, L2 to L1, L1 to registers. We are just lucky that many programs have spatial and temporal locality.
- bufferoverflow 7y agoIt looks like disk and RAM will merge soon into some form of insanely fast and persistent storage. And L3 is already at 256MB (+32MB L2) in the new AMD Threadripper CPUs.