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Compare order of magnitude for register access versus cache versus RAM versus HDD. With page files, all of those are treated the same by the programmer. Local
by com2kid 13y ago
Compare order of magnitude for register access versus cache versus RAM versus HDD.
With page files, all of those are treated the same by the programmer.
Local HDD can already have access latency similar to the local network!
It is another order of magnitude to go beyond that. Meh.
Reliability is, IMHO, the bigger issue.
- dllthomas 13y ago"Local HDD can already have access latency similar to the local network!" Right, there are situations where "in RAM on that other computer" is closer than "on my disk".
- jerf 13y ago"With page files, all of those are treated the same by the programmer." In many cases we just don't care, because a CPU hooked up to RAM is still pretty fast for many use cases. When you do care, this abstraction is actually a huge problem! I think this demonstrates my point, not refutes it.