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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Is Parallel Programming Hard, And, If So, What Can You Do About
 It?
Date: Mon, 12 May 2025 22:34:35 -0000 (UTC)
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On Mon, 12 May 2025 02:03:44 +0000, MitchAlsup1 wrote:

> On Mon, 12 May 2025 1:19:44 +0000, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> 
>> One of my pet peeves is disk drives with memory caches in them. Why?
> 
> Makes the disk faster, decreasing pressure on the "Disk Cache" in DRAM.

You realize that cache is on the wrong side of a drive interface which is 
not designed to run at RAM speeds?