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That wasn't a "try" - that was a success. Thank you!

If I may attempt a paraphrase: CPU caches stop being a bandage for slow access to RAM and become a valuable first class citizen for each core of the CPU when coupled with the actor model.

Did I understand you correctly? Again, thank you.



Well you could do that today if you as a programmer could manually tell the system "please load addr x, y and z into the cache".

But if the cores of the CPU starts to communicate with the actor model then you wouldn't be using the memory close to the cores as a cache but as a storage area for messages that haven't been sent/processed yet as well as possible for thread local storage.




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