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How could that app possibly use 200MB of memory? Was that resident memory or simply mapped memory?

• sliverstorm 13y ago
  How could that app possibly use 200MB of memory? I don't really know, but all the software for that notebook was impressively bad. The ones the user would interact with were literally the slowest programs I've ever used, and we're just talking about opening menus or clicking buttons under idle load. I still haven't figured out how opening a menu on a 2008 laptop can require 5-10 seconds of compute. So I would conclude, "most likely a complete and utter disregard for limited resources". Which is why I am repelled by memory is practically free, don't even think about it arguments. To my figuring, give it a little attention. Not gobs, but don't pretend memory is a solved problem.
• Pinckney 13y ago
  Some sort of disk buffer, maybe?