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Sally McKee, who coined the term "the memory wall", has died

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by DespairYeMighty

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She was a CS PhD and somewhat itinerant professor with a long career who wrote a prominent CS paper about computer memory, Hitting the Memory Wall: Implications of the Obvious
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/216585.216588
on her obituary page, you will see a prominent "Memory Wall" link that is NOT a reference to her paper, but a place for sharing your thoughts about her life

by deater

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There are probably so many stories out there of interesting things she did. A few are breifly referenced at her old website here: https://web.archive.org/web/20060116130917/http://www.csl.co...

by akkartik

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My dissertation was on the memory wall, and I never heard of her :/ RIP

by fao_

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Damn, three years younger than one of my parents. A real shame.
Call your loved ones :(

by dyauspitr

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I’m never heard of that term.