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Library isn't RAM. If library books were to be RAM, you'd clone yourself many times and stand in front of each book. And, all of you would share mind. Then per
by the1 14y ago
Library isn't RAM. If library books were to be RAM, you'd clone yourself many times and stand in front of each book. And, all of you would share mind. Then performing binary search in the library is sort of okay.
Or, it could be organized in a circle where you are at the center. You don't move. But you pull/push each book with a magnet. But, RAM is more like the former. So many parallel flip flops. No wonder it's expensive.
- therandomguy 14y agoIn the post he says that. They part where he discuss the cost of the algorithm. For computers it is only the comparison. For library it is the comparison and distance to walk.