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My poor RAM... (loot.buckodr.ink)

submitted 1 year ago by xusontha@ls.buckodr.ink to c/programmerhumor@lemmy.ml

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[–] wols@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The point is that you're not fixing the problem, you're just masking it (and one could even argue enabling it).

The same way adding another 4 lane highway doesn't fix traffic long term (increasing highway throughput leads to more people leads to more cars leads to congestion all over again) simply adding more RAM is only a temporary solution.

Developers use the excuse of people having access to more RAM as justification to produce more and more bloated software. In 5 years you'll likely struggle even with 32GiB, because everything uses more.
That's not sustainable, and it's not necessary.

[–] lowleveldata@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

The same way adding another 4 lane highway doesn’t fix traffic long term (increasing highway throughput leads to more people leads to more cars leads to congestion all over again) simply adding more RAM is only a temporary solution.

How is adding more RAM a temporary solution? It would lead more workload to the CPU... which is good?