Comment by teiferer

> run a sum over megabytes of data like for accounting

It's been many decades since the last time somebody ran a sum over megabytes of data for accounting and though "damn that's a bottleneck I need to optimize".

> Personally I'm a big fan of the "in-ram accelerator" idea especially for server space.

The operations this model supports are so extremely limited that you would be hard pressed to find applications where it's worth it.