[Python-ideas] Application awareness of memory storage classes

[Terry Reedy]

On 5/18/2016 1:11 PM, R. David Murray wrote:
> On Tue, 17 May 2016 17:07:59 -0400, Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:

 >> How is non-volatile NVRAM different from static SRAM?

 > NVRAM retains the data even if it loses power.

OK, I mis-remembered the battery-backup part, and was thinking of flash 
memory at 'static' rather than 'non-volatile'.  A third term really is 
needed.

>> A list does not seem like a good candidate for static mem, unless insert
>> and delete are suppressed/unused.
>
> Why not?  The point isn't that the memory is *static*, it's that it is
> *persistent*.

Because each is an O(n) operation.  I was thinking of non-volatile 
writes as been relatively slow and in some sense more costly, but maybe 
that is not necessarily the case for new designs.


-- 
Terry Jan Reedy