It is a well accepted fact that lots of RAM does improve performance. But does RAM speed matter in computation intensive operations? Is there a difference between 1600MHz RAM and a 2400MHz RAM in performance, everything else being equal? If so, how much?
I have googled around and came across a few links and this excellent review http://www.anandtech.com/show/6372/memory-performance-16gb-ddr31333-to-ddr32400-on-ivy-bridge-igp-with-gskill . But all of these seem to be in the context of gaming? Does it apply to programming too?