Seriously? I like your blog but please never write something like algorithms are for people who can't afford more ram. Memory management and efficiency should

Seriously? I like your blog but please never write something like algorithms are for people who can't afford more ram. Memory management and efficiency should always be a goal, or else you end up with browsers using 2gb of ram with 5 tabs open, and more crap like that. Yes, memory is cheap. That shouldn't promote terrible code. Vostok4 on January 21, 2011 12:09 AM That was my first thought. I still have a laptop I bought in '07 with just 1G of RAM. It works fine and I've never felt compelled to drop a grand or two every couple of years just so that I can.. what? Use more system resources to do the same things I always do? The problem I've been having with NOT keeping up in the tech arms race at home is that this poor laptop can easily start paging memory with only a couple of Gnome apps open and FF running. It used to be a pretty decent machine. There are contexts where it's "cheaper" to throw hardware at the problem. I don't think the desktop is one of those areas. Not everyone using them is an engineer being paid over a hundred dollars an hour.