Memory consumption is often not a major concern on modern systems, saving 50 MB or even 500 MB is seldom as important as the ability to process more requests pe

Memory consumption is often not a major concern on modern systems, saving 50 MB or even 500 MB is seldom as important as the ability to process more requests per second. The difference between 50 MB and 500 MB is that the former is more likely to fit in L3 cache than the latter. Ignore that difference at your peril.