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This seems largely misguided. Stuff like merging duplicate memory spots (such as that reserved for future use by applications) seems to question programmer judg
by gburt 15y ago
This seems largely misguided. Stuff like merging duplicate memory spots (such as that reserved for future use by applications) seems to question programmer judgment in the aim of saving available memory.
If the memory is available, you'd do better to use it, no?
- singh 15y agoHow is this misguided? > If the application tries to write to the memory in future, Windows will give it a private copy It is textbook Copy-on-write. To me it seems no judgement is made about the programmer. >If the memory is available, you'd do better to use it, no? I don't understand... if I have 2 GB of RAM, I should always use all of it? The case being made in the article is to minimize memory consumption to increase battery life - something that will be crucial on tablets I assume.
- wmf 15y ago...question programmer judgment in the aim of saving available memory. These are Windows programmers we're talking about. The culture doesn't seem to encourage fastidiousness. If the memory is available, you'd do better to use it, no? Yes, but what if you run out later? Should you do the dedupe when some other process is blocked trying to allocate memory or should you do it earlier?
- dorian-graph 15y agoIt seems like everyone and his grandma know better than Microsoft engineers.