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It's fine until you run out of disk space (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by hypertown@lemmy.world to c/programmerhumor@lemmy.ml

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[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Bandwidth isn't really most of the issue. It's latency. It's the amount of time from the CPU requesting a segment of memory to receiving it, which bandwidth doesn't effect.

[–] barsoap@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Depends on your workload and access pattern.

...I'm saying can be faster. Not is faster.

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, but the point of RAM is fast random (the R in RAM) access times. There are ways to make slower memory work better for this by predicting what will be needed (grab a chunk of memory because accesses will probably need things with closer locality than pure random), but it can't be fixed. Cloud memory is good for non-random storage or storage that isn't time critical.