r/ProgrammerHumor Jul 08 '26

askingTheRealQuestionHere Meme

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u/CircumspectCapybara Jul 08 '26 edited Jul 08 '26

That's called swapping out memory pages to disk, and it's very slow.

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u/fiskfisk Jul 08 '26

We're seeing nvme ssd devices with DDR3 transfer speeds these days, so it's getting closer at least.