On Monday, 1 July 2013 at 09:14:07 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
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.
My 4 gig machine needs swap space... just to surf on internet.
I think one of the biggest culprits are not the programs, but
today's *shiny* and *exciting* websites...
