Re: speaking of ram...
- From: Steve Baker <ice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: technocracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2000 14:32:19 -0500
John Madden <weez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> ... Take a look at RAM prices.. I've never seen 'em so low. I bought a
> pair of 128meg PC133 dimms for $136 last night, including insured
> shipping. $51 each. $102 for a 256meg chip! http://www.pricewatch.com.
I'd been thinking that RAM prices had been held artificially high for a
while now, probably over a year. Had to give eventually -- Moores law and
all that. Alas, I already have 256MB, which seems to be just about all I
need to never swap (unless I'm dealing in huge images or something).
I hope that DDR memory is everything they say it will be. Iterating over
even 256MB of memory actually takes quite a bit of time, such that these huge
apps don't run all that fast even on super fast processors like 1GHz
Athlons. Why spend so much money on a fast processor when you're forever
memory bound? Current processors also don't seem to come with enough cache
anymore either. We've had 512k cache sizes since the 486 -- when 16MB was
probably all you could afford. I'd really like to see MB's support a good
16+MB L3 cache.
- Steve
P.S. Did everyone remember to vote Libertarian today? =)
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