> Exactly - it makes no difference. The memory subsystem will be taking > chunks from ram and pulling them up through the cache heirarchy anyway - > nothing uses the ram for operations, and there would be no performance > penalty for having fragmented ram. >
>From what I learned back in EE/CS124, I believe that there is no latency between addresses within a certain range, but there is latency between addresses outside of that range.
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