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Yeah, the same separation between small assets available quickly and big assets available slowly is how Amazon recommends you separate data between SimpleDB and

• smanek 18y ago
  Yep, it isn't a new idea. The premise of Von Neumann machines is that you work around the cpu/data bottleneck with increasingly faster (and larger) caches. You have a tiny bit of ludicrously fast on chip memory (registers), a few megs of successively larger and slower L1/L2/L3 cache, a few gigs of kind of slow memory, and hundreds of gigs of unbelievably slow hard disk. This would just split the unbelievably slow disk into two separate layers - kind of slow SSD and really slow disk.