Intel’s first Optane SSD: 375GB that you can also use as RAM
This is a big deal.We've always made a distinction between memory and disk. Much of computer science is about algorithms that recognize the difference between slow, persistent disk and fast, volatile RAM and account for it somehow.What happens if the distinction goes away? What if all data is persistent? What if we can perform calculations directly on persisted data without pulling it into RAM first?My guess is that we'll start writing software very differently. It's hard for me to predict how, though.