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> Even $150 notebooks come with 1 gig of ram. The issue is with the processor's cache memory, which is small, typically 64 kiB or so. (The TLB cache is also im
by Daniel_Newby 14y ago
> Even $150 notebooks come with 1 gig of ram.
The issue is with the processor's cache memory, which is small, typically 64 kiB or so. (The TLB cache is also important.) Even a few hundred bytes savings can give an important improvement in speed amd power consumption.