[tremor] Physical implementation of tremor

[Segher Boessenkool]

Brendan Moran wrote:
> 
>>>> The rather high memory requirements of tremor might be a bit of a 
>>>> problem for a hardware implementation. Memory is expensive.
>>>
>>> Couldn't that be dealt with through using external memory?
>>
>> External busses are expensive, too.
> 
> Depends on how much I/O you start with.

It is the actual bus that is expensive, not the amount of
traffic on it.  Expensive as in "money", and expensive as
in "Watts" -- expensive as in "slow" is no real concern for
this kind of devices (the bus is certainly not slow compared
to the cpu).

> My suspicion, though I have no evidence, is that a "hard" implementation 
> would take a significantly lower quantity of RAM.

Why would that be?  I see no reason for this.

<p>Segher

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