tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6569681.post920116151153166365..comments2024-03-24T10:38:16.997-07:00Comments on Geeking with Greg: Talk on disk as the new RAMGreg Lindenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09216403000599463072noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6569681.post-26193293554726588692008-04-06T23:46:00.000-07:002008-04-06T23:46:00.000-07:00I don't think the point of disk becoming new RAM i...I don't think the point of disk becoming new RAM is valid in any case but a really specific one (the one mentioned in your article).<BR/><BR/>There's not just cache misses, there are other problems. Disk is <I>the</I> main component in current-days computers that hasn't kept up with speed increases.<BR/>Sure, it may be possible to improve on that with parallellism, but that introduces other problems — more points of failure, heat issues, increase power requirements, etc. Not to mention the physical size requirements.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6569681.post-73830343482305228182008-03-29T22:50:00.000-07:002008-03-29T22:50:00.000-07:00With the increasing penalty for cache misses, RAM ...With the increasing penalty for cache misses, RAM is the new disk, and disk is the new tape. And Flash memory is I have no idea what ;)Amithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12159325271882018300noreply@blogger.com