[LMB] Programming, was: Re: OT: Afterlife

[WalterStuartBushell]

> On Oct 30, 2020, at 3:17 PM, Zan Lynx <zlynx at acm.org> wrote:
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> On 10/30/20 9:30 AM, WalterStuartBushell wrote:
>> for a machine with no peanalty for random access on main memory
> 
> Ah the good old days. I know programmers who claim to miss this feature.
> 
> Except, the reason there was no penalty was because main memory was slow. Equally slow for every access, true. But slow.
> 
> Memory caching and RAM sequential burst reads are a good thing. Even if it means RAM is a lot more like a tape drive than really random access.
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RAM isn’t slow, it’’s that processors have gotten immensely faster. Apparently speeding up processors is cheaper
than speeding up RAM. Of course, I come from an era where main memory was core, which still is used for hysterical
raisons.

Also see, “Dance a Fandango on core.”

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