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I can easily make good use of 32 GB doing normal full stack development: Browser, Visual Studio Code, a few Docker containers including PostgreSQL, Slack. Act
by 1_player 6y ago
I can easily make good use of 32 GB doing normal full stack development: Browser, Visual Studio Code, a few Docker containers including PostgreSQL, Slack.
Actually this should consume a dozen GB of RAM more or less, the rest is in caches, which I think you're undervaluing a lot. Having everything you use in hot caches means any applications starts in a couple hundred of milliseconds, and everything is as fast as your RAM and CPU are, especially if you're running an OS that has a good implementation of file caching (e.g. Linux).
Having more leeway means I never have to close anything if I forget to. I might have my dev environment chugging along in a desktop workspace, while I'm in another with a few dozen browser tabs, talking on Discord with a full screen game running on the other monitor.
That's what a £150 module of 32 GB of RAM gives me. But actually I'm running 64 GB :-)