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The data does not support the premise much less the grandiose conclusions at the end of the article. By pure construction memory is always going to be faster th
by AshamedCaptain 1y ago
The data does not support the premise much less the grandiose conclusions at the end of the article. By pure construction memory is always going to be faster than disk, right up to the point where disk is inplemented as memory which makes this a pointless semantic discussion. Such a fact would hardly invalidate the core pillars as computer science as the conclusions imply. Waste of time.
- zenmac 1y ago>right up to the point where disk is inplemented as memory which makes this a pointless semantic discussion. Yeah hope we are going back to days where developing software means one needs to understand the underling hardware. I know that makes the barrier of entry higher, IMHO that is a good thing. We don't need more people doing software development just quality people.
- Swizec 1y ago> By pure construction memory is always going to be faster than disk, right up to the point where disk is inplemented as memory You can get servers with terabytes of RAM these days. How many startups’ and small to medium businesses’ entire production database could fit in memory on 1 server? Hint: the answer is “a large majority” (numerically, not by market cap) Yes RAM is faster than Disk, but for most people it may simply not matter anymore. Put everything in RAM, sync to storage periodically in the background.