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10 meters one way = 5 meters round trip. Trace the longest physical path a signal travels from your CPU to a memory chip on the DIMM and back, it’s likely longer than you think. And yea on it’s own plenty of overhead, but everyone making latency tradeoffs bashing their design as part of a larger system with a single unavoidable limit.


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