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> the machine that I'm connecting to has 32c/64t, half a terabyte of RAM Ok I'll bite, what do you do? Do you think halving the number of cores / RAM would imp
by hiq 5y ago
> the machine that I'm connecting to has 32c/64t, half a terabyte of RAM
Ok I'll bite, what do you do? Do you think halving the number of cores / RAM would impact your productivity?
- usefulcat 5y agoA lot of what I do is compiling, so for that I'd still be fine with fewer cores and a lot less RAM. But I also do backtesting of trading strategies, and for that I can use all the cores I can get. The memory is needed to cache the massive amount of data that is being read from a pair of 2T NVME SSDs. Without adequate caching, I/O can easily become the bottleneck, even though the SSDs are pretty fast.