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I think the idea is to have large persistent storage with the speeds of RAM. Everything would open instantly.
by DeathArrow 3y ago
I think the idea is to have large persistent storage with the speeds of RAM. Everything would open instantly.
- eternityforest 3y agoThat would be useful, but it wouldn't really replace RAM, or, if it did, we'd probably still wipe it every boot, to be in a known state. Outside of some specialized database applications, having an entire program running right in persistent memory seems like a bad idea. And even then, I'm assuming databases would still want strong separation between persistent stuff and stuff that can be restarted any moment, to minimize the surface area for problems to stay persistent in.
- rwmj 3y agoEven if you don't use it for state, there's still a lot of code and read-only data that could benefit from being executed directly out of Optane.