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1 Oct 2024 11:26:43 EDT (-0400)
  Re: "What every programmer should know about RAM"  
From: Invisible
Date: 22 Apr 2008 04:09:12
Message: <480d9d28$1@news.povray.org>
Warp wrote:
> Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>> I still kinda wish you could actually build a PC that had several GB of 
>> RAM running at the same speed as the CPU - but I'm guessing it might be, 
>> uh, slightly expensive?
> 
>   I'm not even sure it would be physically possible. L1 caches are always
> quite small, and I'm not sure it's all about money.

Yeah, that too.

I suspect propogation delay, ripple time and heat dissapation would all 
constitude pretty significant "issues".

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