What is a "gigamem"?

118 Views Asked by Conor At 03 January 2020 at 00:28

I am reading Donald Knuth's TAOCP: volume 4, Fascicle 6, p18.

He mentions the word gigamem. What does he mean? What is a gigamem?

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Progman On 03 January 2020 at 00:37 BEST ANSWER

Check the index and glossary if you don't understand a specific term:

Gigamems = billions of memory accesses