Not if the CPU runs faster than 10 MHz or so. Fundamentally the speed of CPUs has gone up much, much faster than the speed of RAM for the reasons listed in the article. Some micro-controllers can still do things like you describe, but anything you'd think of as a modern CPU uses some form of caching that makes things more complicated than that.
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Not if the CPU runs faster than 10 MHz or so. Fundamentally the speed of CPUs has gone up much, much faster than the speed of RAM for the reasons listed in the article. Some micro-controllers can still do things like you describe, but anything you'd think of as a modern CPU uses some form of caching that makes things more complicated than that.