I was trying to make the point that these numbers are somewhat arbitrary (i.e. why do I need to know the access speed to disc, when I keep everything in memory on a NUMA system?) and don't apply to all programmers (e.g. embedded systems may not have discs, L2 Caches or internet access).
I was trying to make the point that these numbers are somewhat arbitrary (i.e. why do I need to know the access speed to disc, when I keep everything in memory on a NUMA system?) and don't apply to all programmers (e.g. embedded systems may not have discs, L2 Caches or internet access).