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The typical modern computer has access to an effectively unbounded amount of "memory" (thanks both to local disk virtualization by the OS (eg. the Linux VMM) or via cloud storage services like EBS and S3.)
The catch becomes *only* what cost one is willing to pay in terms of additional monetary spend, latency, or extra points of failure.
A point I'll make in my WIP perf book. (Its in the outline, anyway.)
At extreme enough scale most of the performance dimensions are fungible between each other: they can be traded back and forth, and tuned to taste.
