I'm not a hardware guy, but it seems to me that it would be really nice if RAM could be a little smarter and implement a few simple commands:
- memcpy - Copy one area of memory to another.
- memcmp - Are the given two strings of memory equal?
- memzero - Zero out an area of memory.
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Of course, if you go down this line of thinking too far, you end up at something like iRAM -- solve the whole Neumann bottleneck at once. (I'm all for it. The current CPU/RAM architecture is looking sillier all the time.)
- tim