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What is a "gigamem"?

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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Solution

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

    Gigamems = billions of memory accesses