I can make my programs work, but it's not a good allocation of resources. Two hours of my time costs as much as that computer. The computer that would allow me

I can make my programs work, but it's not a good allocation of resources. Two hours of my time costs as much as that computer. The computer that would allow me to do my job with the most efficacy is equivalent in cost to about 10 hours of my time. The question is whether the better computer save more than 8 hours over the course of a year? The answer is yes. The amount of time it takes to load stuff in from the disk slows down programs immensely. If my computer had 16 gb of memory I'd be able to store and manipulate all my data in memory. That's not even counting how much time is wasted optimizing code that I run rarely. That time is much better spent doing other things.