Something I was wondering about and hoping to get opinions on. It should become quite obvious that I am not highly technical but would appreciate a highly technical response.
With a 64bit OS the amount of ram that could theoretically be installed is much higher than that which would be commonly utilized. Will we in the future see ram drives used to increase performance?
For instance, I want to install a game. I have a program that manages a ram drive and backs up data to the harddrive (mimicking RAID-1). The next time I restart my computer I still have the game installed on my harddrive and I can choose to recopy it to the ram drive prior to playing.
Will having an entire program loaded into RAM increase performance and if so to what extent?
How will performance be affected in a multiprocessor environment where each CPU has its own RAM?
Any other implications that need to be addressed? (besides the obvious cost prohibitive nature of using ram for this purpose)
With a 64bit OS the amount of ram that could theoretically be installed is much higher than that which would be commonly utilized. Will we in the future see ram drives used to increase performance?
For instance, I want to install a game. I have a program that manages a ram drive and backs up data to the harddrive (mimicking RAID-1). The next time I restart my computer I still have the game installed on my harddrive and I can choose to recopy it to the ram drive prior to playing.
Will having an entire program loaded into RAM increase performance and if so to what extent?
How will performance be affected in a multiprocessor environment where each CPU has its own RAM?
Any other implications that need to be addressed? (besides the obvious cost prohibitive nature of using ram for this purpose)