Memory
Properties of physical memory
- called main memory (or RAM, or primary storage, ...)
- indexes are "memory addresses" (a.k.a. pointers)
- data can be fetched in chunks of 1,2,4,8 bytes
- cost of fetching any byte is same (ns)
- can be volatile or non-volatile
When addressing objects in memory ...
- any byte address can be used to fetch 1-byte object
- byte address for N-byte object must be divisible by N
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