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Processes have a much harder time sharing RAM (I think you have to use mmap?)

mmap of course works, but there's also the venerable shmget for shared memory.

Machines can't share cache, RAM, or disk, period.

Be a little careful here; local storage speed matters: memcached exists because it was discovered that fetching data from a remote machine's memory can be faster than snagging it from local spinning rust. I guess these days SSDs make memcached obsolete?

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