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torutofu • today at 12:59 PM • 4 replies • view on HN

yeah, at some point memory footprint becomes an architectural constraint again, not just a number you throw more hardware at.


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amelius • today at 3:04 PM

No more two-space copying garbage collectors.

testerius • today at 2:09 PM

But still it is about GiB instead of KiB.

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vonneumannstan • today at 2:31 PM

This is driven by AI and at a certain point you just need a minimum amount of memory to load all the floating points representing Neural Net weights.

jeffbee • today at 1:59 PM

The memory capacity wall has been coming at us at high speed in plain sight for decades. We've been ignoring it.

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