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Computer engineering

the growing gap between processor speed and memory access time that comes to dominate overall performance.

In computer engineering, memory wall refers to the growing gap between processor speed and memory access time that comes to dominate overall performance. This meaning comes from Wulf (1995) in ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture News.[1]

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Wulf, W. A., & McKee, S. A. (1995). Hitting the memory wall: implications of the obvious. ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture News, 23(1), 20-24. https://doi.org/10.1145/216585.216588

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