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I don't disagree, but I also recall an almost certainly apocryphal story of a web application developer who spent many many weeks honing their application and t
by brianmcc 7y ago
I don't disagree, but I also recall an almost certainly apocryphal story of a web application developer who spent many many weeks honing their application and trimming waste wherever it could be found, proudly announcing they'd finally got it down to running comfortably within the 2Gb memory limit - only to be asked "why not spend £100 and add more memory?".
The moral is I guess is it really cost effective to optimise relentlessly - and to whom?
- tinus_hn 7y agoThe real question is, why not have someone else spend $100 on some extra memory?
- lonelappde 7y agoThere are some steep cliffs. At my job when we need to buy more memory we have to buy a new data center to hold it. At home I'd have to buy a new motherboard or split my work to a separate computer.