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On Sun, 11 May 2025 23:46:17 +0000, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

> On Sun, 11 May 2025 07:47:53 -0700, Al Kossow wrote:
>
>> With the narrow memory interfaces, are cores starved for memory
>> bandwidth?
>
> Low memory bandwidth has been a chronic issue since the “wait states” of
> the 1980s.
>
> That’s why we have memory caches.

Which architects tend to only understand what happens when these
caches are attached to CPUs and not "Joe Random Bus Master",