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"To me, it's more about no longer needing to think about memory as a scarce resource, something you allocate carefully and manage with great care." Once your d
by btmorex 16y ago
"To me, it's more about no longer needing to think about memory as a scarce resource, something you allocate carefully and manage with great care."
Once your data set doesn't fit in memory, it is indeed a scarce resource. And 24 GB is really not very much data.
- stcredzero 16y agoIt depends. There are still corporations making real money that could fit all their essential data on one such machine.
- bluekeybox 16y agoSome people say: "but the computers become faster every year," to which I respond: "but the amount of data we throw at them grows every year at a similar rate." There will never be a substitute for good algorithms. In my field (bioinformatics), thanks to next-gen sequencing technology, the data growth actually outpaces Moore's law. I imagine the same is true for data collected from social networks.
- simonsarris 16y agoYou have reminded me of that old line: "What Andy giveth, Bill taketh away." (Referring to Andy Grove of Intel CEO fame 87-98, still there in some capacity, and Bill Gates.)