Comment on Maybe the RAM shortage will make software less bloated?

magic_lobster_party@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Naw it’s easy:

  void* malloc(size_t size) {
      return std::malloc(size/2);
  }
  

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• atro_city@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Is that what happened after COVID with chip shortage?

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  • badgermurphy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    For the most part, the answer seems to be yes. Some products did also ship with missing or reduced feature sets for a time, too.

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  • magic_lobster_party@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Dealing with memory usage will likely require significant rewrites and architectural changes. It will take years.

    The ”memory optimizations” we’ll see is the removal of features but charge the same price. Software shrinkflation. Will require same amount of memory though.

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