On 2013-07-01 01:14, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
I think memory usage is still important. Many people don't consider that their computer is running hundreds of programs at a time. If each one of those "didn't care" about memory usage, the one that you are currently interested in would not have any breathing room.
I quite often run out of memory at work on my machine with 6GB of RAM when coding Ruby on Rails. I don't know if there's something I do with the code but sometimes something happens in the Ruby code making the Rails server take over 1GB of RAM from 300MB, the same thing happens with the web browser at the same time. Suddenly it decided to eat 2GB of extra RAM.
-- /Jacob Carlborg
