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I think it made a lot more sense in the mid-90s, where a system would have 32 MB of RAM and people read the RAM requirements of the software they'd buy. So the

by cbhl 10y ago

I think it made a lot more sense in the mid-90s, where a system would have 32 MB of RAM and people read the RAM requirements of the software they'd buy. So the size of your largest expected allocation was proportional to the size of RAM only because if you had more RAM you'd run more RAM-intensive software. Now, desktops can have 32 GB of RAM, but everyone just uses it to run Chrome.

CGamesPlay 10y ago
Chrome, Slack, Spotify and Atom, which each bundle their own Chrome. On my computer right now Chrome is using about 1.5 GB of RAM (on Darwin, much of it is compressed). Slack is using 0.75 GB of RAM, Spotify is using another 0.5. We write very memory-hungry software to make up for our copious amount of RAM.
fb03 10y ago
> Now, desktops can have 32 GB of RAM, but everyone just uses it to run Chrome. .... which will happily chew away your 32 GB of RAM if you let it run for enough time :)