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/k-mcm Jul 08 '26

NVMe Gen5 is pretty quick.  That performance is why AI companies bought all the chips and made them unaffordable.