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So... the CPU will complete its work in nanoseconds... then go back to waiting milliseconds for I/O, right?
by AshleysBrain 15y ago
So... the CPU will complete its work in nanoseconds... then go back to waiting milliseconds for I/O, right?
- idonthack 15y agoRAM can be placed in the stack, eliminating slow trips accross the frontside bus. The only remaining bottleneck should be hdd access.
- rbanffy 15y agoYou can also stack flash, phase-change or memristor-based memory in there too.
- burgerbrain 15y agoYou could make that quip about any hardware improvement.
- ent 15y agowell, except for the current bottleneck
- burgerbrain 15y agoYou'll always have an IO bottleneck of some sort, even if we get memory back up to CPU speeds again.
- njharman 15y agoMany, many, many, many tasks/problems are CPU bound.