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  Re: Interesting performance paper  
From: Darren New
Date: 14 Jun 2010 14:27:25
Message: <4c16748d$1@news.povray.org>
clipka wrote:
> If gates are so slow, how come SRAM is so much faster? After all, even 
> the memory cells themselves consist of gates there.

Well, DRAM adds its own slowness, yes. But even with SRAM, having 16 gig of 
SRAM is going to be slower than having 1 Meg of SRAM.

-- 
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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