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    Short answer: yes, latency has a big impact on RAM performance :)
    – alex
    Commented Sep 10, 2009 at 6:08
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    Short answer: no. Latency is almost never as important as transfer speed. You may wait a tiny bit longer until you get the first bit of data, but you'll more than make it up by getting the last bit sooner. (You are wrong about random access. At this level, RAM cannot be accessed randomly. You can only read chunks.)
    – David Schwartz
    Commented Nov 23, 2012 at 23:48