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I don't think "Must never use more than 10 MB of memory" is a reasonable standard to hold all software to.
by chc 12y ago
I don't think "Must never use more than 10 MB of memory" is a reasonable standard to hold all software to.
- kennywinker 12y agoNope, but I would venture to guess that most software would be improved by sticking to that.
- chc 12y agoI don't even feel confident in that claim. If keeping memory usage under 10 MB requires a significant amount of developer effort, that is effort that isn't going into something else that I might value a lot more than, say, 20 MB of RAM.
- georgemcbay 12y agoNot just developer effort, but also sometimes program runtime efficiency. RAM is cheap, RAM is pretty fast (compared to disk or network); cache shit there when it makes sense to do so for overall efficiency. 10MB is a fairly ridiculous modern standard to limit yourself to, IMO (and I started on the C64 and generally do dislike and try to avoid bloat).
- TD-Linux 12y agoTo put this in perspective, a full screen application running on a Retina display needs at least 40MB total for its front and back buffers.