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fwiw the memory bandwidth is so high on these devices that it doesn't feel as bad as it should be.
by whalesalad 3y ago
fwiw the memory bandwidth is so high on these devices that it doesn't feel as bad as it should be.
- ephemeral-life 3y agoMemory bandwidth doesn't matter for these types of devices, it is memory latency that matters. But best of all is actually having your application in memory and not having to do disk reads.
- skydhash 3y agoMost usual applications (native) runs under 100MB of real memory. If you're insisting on using electron apps from developers that does not care about performance...
- ephemeral-life 3y agoThats great for you I guess. When I work, I want vscode with all the fancy linting and language server bells and whistles. I want to be able to have a ton of chrome tabs for browsing and docs and I want a local version of whatever I am building to run. Im gonna make the bold assumption that this is quite common in the dev community. Given that, 8gb is pushing it, no matter how you spin the "but my memory is fast" or "but native apps"
- mort96 3y agoHuh? High memory bandwidth doesn't help at all if you're running out of memory.
- whalesalad 3y agoIt does when you have very fast solid state storage beneath it. Most computers make use of swap. If the performance gap between swap and ram is small, you will feel like you have more ram than you actually do.
- mort96 3y agoAnd what relevance does that have with memory bandwidth? Of course a faster SSD helps if you're swapping, but you said faster memory bandwidth is what's making the tiny amounts of RAM on modern Macs "not as bad" If you had said "the fast SSDs make these tiny amounts of RAM not feel as bad" I would've agreed