alt Hacker NewsIs there a reason you can think of why AMD, Intel etc. would not want to do this?
Really enjoyed the video and feel that I (not being in the IT industry) better understand CPUs und and RAM now.
Is there a reason you can think of why AMD, Intel etc. would not want to do this?
Really enjoyed the video and feel that I (not being in the IT industry) better understand CPUs und and RAM now.
I can not think of any reason they would not want to do it.
However, I do seem at least 2 downsides to this method.
Number one it is at least 2x the memory. That has for a decently long time been a large cost of a computer. But I could see some people saying 'whatever buy 8x'.
The second is data coherency. In a read only env this would work very nicely. In a write env this would be 2x the writes and you are going to have to wait for them to all work or somehow mark them as not ready on the next read group. Now it would be OK if the read of that page was some period of time after the write. But a different place where things could stall out.
Really liked her vid. She explained it very nicely. She exudes that sense of joy I used to have about this field.