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This idea behind caching is that it is possible to make a combination
of small-fast and large-slow memory look large-fast. Obviously, this
is only useful if you can't get large-fast for some reason (e.g. it
is prohibitively expensive). This is generally the case; fast
memories cost more than slow memories of equivalent size. There is no
reason to believe that this 'fact of economics/nature' will change.

Another possibility is that memory will be fast enough; faster
memories will not speed up the system as a whole. I wouldn't expect
this to be the case unless the logic or I/O is slow. If it is the
logic, build your logic out of memories (or memory technology). If it
is I/O that slows the system down instead of logic, then (assuming
Disk I/O) you can make your disk look faster using caching techniques
as well.


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