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Memory usage matters too! Languages lacking shared memory multiprocessing will use more energy even if they're equally fast.
by cozzyd 6y ago
Memory usage matters too! Languages lacking shared memory multiprocessing will use more energy even if they're equally fast.
- tines 6y agoThat's a good point. DRAM only sucks power when you flip the bits right?
- cozzyd 6y agoWell it has to be constantly refreshed (I think?) if there's something important in it. But more I was thinking that you need more memory to support less-efficient memory usage in the first place, or, if the amount of memory is fixed, less of it would be used for things like the disk cache.