[Tfug] Cheap Memory

[Bexley Hall]

--- keith smith <klsmith2020 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> That is how most will look at the statement of "It
> only has 1GB of RAM.".
> 
> There is another school of thought.... if a techie
> cost upwards of $100/hr in a w2 situation and a Gig
> of ram cost $59 or so and if a little RAM can
> overcome some long hours optimizing code.... lets
> throw some RAM at it.

No.  Those hours get paid for thousands (millions?)
of times over by folks running that slow application
every day, etc.  And, that laziness on the coder's
part punishes *every* application (and the OS itself)
running on that machine by selfishly deciding that
*it* needs that resource more than some other
application might, etc.

It's the same sort of brain-damage that has software
(on CD) installers working with *compressed* images
instead of just creating a "live filesystem" direct
on CD (DVD) and blindly *copying* files onto the
target (instead of having to do whatever they are
doing for those 10, 20, 40, etc. minutes while
"Installing Software").

Cripes, you can clone a 40G drive in the time it
takes to install Windows/Linux/etc.

> So what are your thoughts?

Ice cream would be an excellent dessert after
tonight's supper...

--don


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