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>I just wonder if one day we'll be using systems with 4tb of ram that would be snappier if upgraded to 8tb or 16tb. Can't find but feel there's a quote like "P

• jokit 7y ago
  I know that some people are only as efficient as they're forced to be. I hope there are efforts to take what is needed, and make it more efficient. There are efforts like Commander X16 to make a new 8 bit computer, and others where people are rewriting things in Rust.. BTW, I have a first gen iPad sitting around that worked very the first two years or so of its existence, and it barely functions today. I know part of that is Apple "protecting" older batteries by slowing down older stuff so we go out and buy new things, but I would like to believe that we're capable or creating an OS for that hardware today that would run better than it did originally, rather than barely function at all.
• zeckalpha 7y ago
  Not necessarily on the desktop today, but yes. There are workloads like this out there.
• kqr 7y ago
  > Can't find but feel there's a quote like "Programs will grow to fill memory" That is a ball we set in motion when we introduced virtual memory, particularly with overcommit. Give a developer the option to write calls to malloc that never fail, and boy will they make use of that! Performance be damned.