Lots of software could run in just 128MiB, especially if it could page stuff out to ssd.
CPU's usually have a cache-as-ram mode that can enable this.
Does this mean that systems where you can hot swap all the ram at once will be possible?
CPU's usually have a cache-as-ram mode that can enable this.
Does this mean that systems where you can hot swap all the ram at once will be possible?
I can also foresee an entire industry popping up to do this on purpose in the name of “compatibility”. I’m sure the marketing will talk about the efficiency of being able to run “true” IE6 on top of Chrome in 2030.
It’s also just a matter of time until we see Docker images for running Windows 95 apps in the browser via WINE on top of a user-mode Linux kernel emulator.
Check back here in 7 years to see which of the above prophecies materialised.
I used to see SQL Server 7 databases running on NT4 servers with 64 MB of memory! This cache is double that.
Of course in some objective sense I have to recognize that the workloads were sized to fit…
https://git.furworks.de/coreboot-mirror/coreboot/commit/a245...
It still seems a bit far off now, but come on, in 5 years or less we'll see 1GB, that gigabyte level is a huge implicit marketing number.
Might be a harbinger of a new movement in computing: all-cache computing, and reworking OSs and slimming down libraries and other things to fit into cache. It might be the only shot at getting a slimdown revolution going before moore's law really stalls in a couple decades.