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A lack of bit addressability means that hammering one bit would burn out a whole word/page, but it doesn't affect how many cycles it takes to reach that burn-out point, unless you've got wear leveling.

In practice, if you burn out any one bit, you need to retire a chunk of the array at least as large as a cache line. And it's not likely that you'll actually be able to directly hammer a single bit, because the endurance is still low enough to require ECC.




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