546: Re-Crop With the Wisdom of Age
Accidental Tech Podcast
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The Importance of Far Away Memory
A recent trend in both academia and industry has been in resource disaggregation. This is sometimes called FAR memory, which refers to the unbundling of hardware resources from physical computers. The general rule of thumb is remote memory is faster than local disk. But if you need to go pointer chasing through gigabytes of memory on the other hand, this is not likely to play nice.
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