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Ask HN: What should every programmer know about memory nowadays?

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Ulrich Drepper's 2007 series of articles, What Every Programmer Should Know About Memory, is widely considered a must read. However, it was written 8 years ago (a lifetime in the tech world). What changes should the modern programmer be aware of?

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Programmers need to stress more about their own brain's memory speed and optimization that the pc's..

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