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On one hand, I can sort of agree with your prof. I learned coding on a system that had 16 kB total memory. The laptop I'm using now has 16 GB RAM and 250 GB sto
by Florin_Andrei 11y ago
On one hand, I can sort of agree with your prof. I learned coding on a system that had 16 kB total memory. The laptop I'm using now has 16 GB RAM and 250 GB storage.
On the other hand, when I'm eyeballing a new environment I'm building in the cloud, one of the first things I'm asking myself is - how much total RAM? (because that's one major driver of cost)
It's all in the perspective.
- georgemcbay 11y agoDefinitely all in the perspective, though of course the premium paid for more RAM does not necessarily represent an accurate extra cost incurred by the provider. Amount of available RAM is very often pretty far disconnected from the cost to provide the good or service and is just acting as a price tiering mechanism. This is true for cloud services as well as other things like cell phones (eg. the 2*X GB version is often significantly more expensive than the X GB version, way more than the cost of the extra memory alone would warrant if you just considered the cost of the chips).