Important are the bottlenecks regarding to the usage. All general
claims are nothing, but blah-blah.
Could not agree more. Too many people are buying new ram modules when
they should simply buy a faster hard disk, by example.
People often say that dev needs high-performance computers for
compilation, and I am doing most of my personal dev on a netbook. It is
powerful enough.
Well, ok, it would not be if I was using certain IDE, and some weeks
ago I wanted to change my RAM module to go to 2GB. But since then, I've
discovered clang.
The current problem, and reason why people need new, over-powerful
hardwares is that developers create bloatwares and soft with many memory
leaks and high memory costs.
I remember teachers I had saying that using "int" was as good as using
"char" since consumers can buy ram. Luckily, I had already knowledge in
programming, and a strong opinion that obvious optimizations must be
done, but I was an exception.
You spoke about firefox. A few versions ago, it was a good sample of
what I said, but because of the browser's war, they finally fix their
problems. I can remember times where it was able to run with less than
256MB! It can not do that on desktop version nowadays. Not without a lot
of disk access to swap.
But I think it is a shame that softwares need "opponents" to think
about their performances problems.
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