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Subject: Re: Memory latency question

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 07:41:40 08/31/02

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On August 30, 2002 at 23:54:40, Matthew Hull wrote:

>If memory latency suddenly became zero, how much faster would your program be
>without changes?
>
>Would you then change the way it's programmed?  If so, how much faster could it
>be then?


It would certainly run far faster.  Because suddenly a 2ghz processor could
run at 2ghz without waiting for instructions/data...

I wouldn't personally change anything, but it would allow everyone to become
sloppier in how they used memory since there would be zero penalty...



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