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Why Adding a Full Hard Drive Can Make a Computer More Powerful

5 points| SethMurphy | 11 months ago |wired.com

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more_corn|11 months ago

I cannot read a tech writer who conflates the words “storage” and “memory” go back to fourth grade.

eurleif|11 months ago

In the context of the complexity theory questions discussed in the article, it doesn't matter: a hard disk has greater constant factors than does RAM, but their asymptotic behavior is the same.