/tags/memory-management/ Recent content in memory-management on Developer's blog Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Mon, 17 Jan 2022 05:00:00 +0000 /posts/how-much-access-to-ram-costs/ Mon, 17 Jan 2022 05:00:00 +0000 /posts/how-much-access-to-ram-costs/ <p>Every computer program uses the main memory (RAM) to store data. RAM is considered to be fast storage compared even to the fastest NVMe SSD or 100Gbit network. It seems that the RAM speed is high enough and that is why no optimizations are required: just read or write any memory cell when the program needs it.</p> <p>From the famous article <a href="https://people.freebsd.org/~lstewart/articles/cpumemory.pdf">What Every Programmer Should Know About Memory</a>, I&rsquo;d found that memory access is more tricky than I used to think about.</p>