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kadoban on Sept 24, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: Books on designing disk-optimized data str...

That sounds quite a bit less true for RAM and SSD, typically as long as you're reading cache-line or block size, respectively, isn't it consistent costs for each read?

sitkack on Sept 25, 2022 [–]

They would be consistent, but some fraction would be still be setup time. RAM behaves more like a serial device than a truly random one.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/56086993/what-does-strea...

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