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SSD speeds will probably continue increasing, so removing RAM will take us about 20 years back to the past, with the difference that these will have seemingly "
by ffhhj 4y ago
SSD speeds will probably continue increasing, so removing RAM will take us about 20 years back to the past, with the difference that these will have seemingly "unlimited" memory. Imagine Windows 2000 never complaining about being out of memory.
- demindiro 4y ago> Imagine Windows 2000 never complaining about being out of memory. Just put a huge swap file on it.
- Sugimot0 4y agoOr use zram or zswap https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Improving_performance#zram_or_zswap https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Improving_performance#zram_...
- teraflop 4y agoGetting rid of DRAM would take us back a lot farther than 20 years. A typical desktop PC circa 2000 using PC133 RAM would have had a memory access latency in the tens of nanoseconds.
- magicalhippo 4y ago> SSD speeds will probably continue increasing, so removing RAM will take us about 20 years back to the past I think you significantly overestimate how much they can reduce latency for SSDs. Keep in mind, even a 80286 from 1982 had a memory latency in the 200ns range[1]. [1]: https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2004/10/6401-latency-lags-bandwith/ https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2004/10/6401-latency-lags-ban... (view PDF, table 1)