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Invisible wrote:
> but RAM is still roughly the same speed.
No it's not. RAM used to take several microseconds. Drum memory was on the
order of miliseconds.
> the time complexity of your algorithm is now *irrelevant*. The *only*
> thing that matters now is cache behaviour.
Only irrelevant if all the data you need fits in cache. If you have a 300Gb
data set like the paper says, your L1 cache isn't going to be nearly as
important.
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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
Eiffel - The language that lets you specify exactly
that the code does what you think it does, even if
it doesn't do what you wanted.
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