Speed makes a difference, and sometimes you can get a boost without reaching in your wallet ...
While it's not as necessary on newer hardware, old and less capable desktops or laptops could get a helpful boost from any USB storage drives lying around.
The dynamic interplay between processor speed and memory access times has rendered cache performance a critical determinant of computing efficiency. As modern systems increasingly rely on hierarchical ...
A technical paper titled “HMComp: Extending Near-Memory Capacity using Compression in Hybrid Memory” was published by researchers at Chalmers University of Technology and ZeroPoint Technologies.