Insanely fast but all descriptions of the Alpha's memory model sound insane to me, too. For example https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22283194 https://news.y

Insanely fast but all descriptions of the Alpha's memory model sound insane to me, too. For example https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22283194 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22283194 (I've actually wondered how this behavior was supposed to be caused by hardware and that's the first time I've heard the cache-is-split-into-independent-banks-which-are-fully-independently-connected-to-the-main-bus-and-cache-snooping-bus explanation which makes sense)