So I take it you're offering to buy me some more RAM, then? Unfortunately, my motherboard is already full at 4GB so this upgrade would be more expensive than yo

So I take it you're offering to buy me some more RAM, then? Unfortunately, my motherboard is already full at 4GB so this upgrade would be more expensive than you might expect at firs. What about my friends that have older 2GB laptgops? Do they get an upgrade too? I'm joking, of course, but there IS a lot of variation in computer hardware, which makes this kind of broad generalization even more problematic. Also, memory size is probably not that useful of a metric for modern hardware, where the penalty for overflowing the CPU caches can be huge. edit: Why statically link when you can prelink(8) instead? ( http://linux.die.net/man/8/prelink http://linux.die.net/man/8/prelink )