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Hard Upper Limit on Memory Latency

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Abstract: “Speed of light imposes hard limits on possible latencies of high-volume RAM”
Quote: “Even if each bit is implemented by single atom of silicon, 2^90-byte RAM is the largest RAM which can possibly have latencies comparable to modern DDR3 SDRAM.”
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A Model for Debug Complexity

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Abstract: A humble attempt to make some approximation of debug complexity.
Quote: “Our model shows that coupling is a bad thing for debugging complexity, so we can consider this sanity check to be passed”
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Filed Under: Debugging, Programming Tagged With: ,

‘No Bugs’ Top Five C++ Cooking Recipes

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Abstract: When cooking a C++ program, there are a few spices to consider.
Quote: “If strict weak ordering is violated, all kinds of weird things can happen: from identical multiple entries in a supposedly-unique collection, to memory corruption”
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640K 2^256 Bytes of Memory is More than Anyone Would Ever Need Get

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Abstract: Physics imposes hard limits on amount of memory we will get in foreseeable future.
Quote: “Even if every memory cell can be represented by a single atom, we would need 1 to 10% of all the stars and planets which we can see , to implement 2^256 bytes of memory.”
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