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There’s been a sharp divergence in memory requirements. Talk to developers and they think that 32GB is the bare minimum these days, with 64GB or more preferred.
by Aurornis 4mo ago
There’s been a sharp divergence in memory requirements. Talk to developers and they think that 32GB is the bare minimum these days, with 64GB or more preferred. They’ll point to Electron and Chrome tabs and everything else.
Then you sit down with an average computer user on their 8GB RAM MacBook Neo and they’re in love with how fast and smooth it is, even with their chrome tabs and the company Slack up and Spotify in the background.
I still have an older 8GB machine to kick around with on the go when I don’t want to haul the expensive laptop. It’s fine, even for a lot of development.
- Schlagbohrer 4mo agoHow do you explain this discrepancy? Is it because the OS is agressively fencing in and pruning these wasteful software?
- master_crab 4mo agoContainers is often the reason. You start a container and you are immediately pulling in a quarter to half a gig or more (often the latter).
- pmontra 4mo agoBecause they use one or two apps at at time, the ones they must spend all their time to perform their job. E.g. Excel and a web app to work on invoices and a stack of paper documents. I see 8 GB on Windows PCs too.
- ack_complete 4mo agoSome tasks simply require more RAM. Compiling big software, for instance, wants as many CPU cores as it can get, and each compiler instance needs some amount of RAM to run efficiently. It's not unusual for a 32-core build to need 32-64GB of RAM to run at full speed. Work on a smaller program, though, and 16GB is absolutely fine.
- tancop 4mo ago[dead]