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The limits on memory access are physical, illustrated by grass hoppers famous video about nanoseconds and the speed of light.

Should computer algorithms always assume they need to model caches since they are never going away? When determining the computational complexity, time and memory are treated with equivalence, but real memory doesn't and never will behave that way.



Grace Hopper, not grass hopper. The latter is an insect, the former was an awesome computer engineer who invented the compiler.


Then again, both have something to do with bugs on some level...


Well, crap. It was a 4am post, and too late to edit now.




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