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The main memory one stays 100ns for every year?


It’s indeed been about 100ns for a long time. Part of this is that memory is larger though, so there may be more decisions to make to look up a line (and those are made faster). And throughput has improved. Some consumer high-end desktop hardware (think gaming rather than workstation) can have lower latency ram.




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