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I would really love to see some kind of PoC of running fully in cash a program. Having 104mb of you can run some performance critical stuff entirely from cash.


Most binaries you encounter today fit in this cache. This is what makes AMD's x3d chips so fast in games. And you're off by 8x on the size, it's 104MB.


Binary is not interesting. Data it operates on is.


Since were being pedantic. Is that 2^10 bits or 10^3 bits per MB?


AMD writes MB, and they list the faster caches' sizes in KByte, where indeed I think it should be Mi and Ki respectively. And in the NV space (hdds, ssds) a GB means 10^9. Reminds me of DDR vendors telling us that memory runs at 8GHz (8GT/s, 4GHz in reality).


If we are being padantic 1 MB is 10^6 bytes. 1 MiB would be 2^20


I thought of that soon after my comment but I felt my point was made even better because of the bad maths



Dram cache is not comparable to sram cache.




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