Everything2
Near Matches
Ignore Exact
Full Text
Everything2

Access time

created by CentrX

(thing) by syntax (2.9 y) (print)   ?   (I like it!) Sat Mar 08 2003 at 18:34:31

The time a program or device takes to locate a single piece of information and make it available to the computer for processing. DRAM (dynamic random access memory) chips for personal computers have access times of 50 to 150 nanoseconds (billionths of a second). Static RAM (SRAM) has access times as low as 10 nanoseconds. Ideally, the access time of memory should be fast enough to keep up with the CPU. If not, the CPU will waste a certain number of clock cycles, which makes it slower.

printable version
chaos

10,000 RPM hard drives bus ram CD
CPU track register file stat
Y'know, if you log in, you can write something here, or contact authors directly on the site. Create a New User if you don't already have an account.
  Epicenter
Login
Password

password reminder
register

Everything2 Help

Cool Staff Picks
After stirring Everything, these nodes rose to the top:
I must have waited all my life for this
Marathon 2: Durandal
J2EE
Battle of Stalingrad
Dutch
You'll never work in dis bidness again
Beat Generation
United States of America
Maria Sharapova
The UK's farmers, or How to reap a profit without worrying about pesky scruples
public sector
The last time I saw Orson Welles
Decadence
New Writeups
The Custodian
Forgotten things in space(place)
DreamingOfGaia
boredom(event)
tentative
July 4, 2008(personal)
Whiskeydaemon
sewing machine(log)
waverider37
Forgotten things in space(poetry)
jessicaj
Days when art is too much to bear(idea)
You've Got Gold
I aborted my peace and tranquility(event)
Simulacron3
Sensing and Perceiving(essay)
StrawberryFrog
Bore(person)
Heitah
The Davy Crockett Weapon System(thing)
Timeshredder
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull(review)
aneurin
Miles Francis Stapleton Fitzalan Howard, 17th Duke of Norfolk(person)
Bitriot
flashover(thing)
tejasa
Cranberry Cornbread(recipe)
Dreamvirus
Brighton Bombing(event)
Everything 2 is brought to you by the letter C and The Everything Development Company