It’s like adding lanes to a highway, it doesn’t reduce traffic, it increases demand. Developers will create software that needs more ram just cause they can. So unless you want to be running office 2010 then it’s necessary.
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GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml 6 months ago
What kind of stupid world is it where 8GB of RAM is actually not enough? I’m not doing anything that fundamentally different to what I was doing 10 years ago, and back then 2GB was fine on the low end of things.
MataVatnik@lemmy.world 6 months ago
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 6 months ago
640k should be enough for anything right?
fuck progress, eh?
goddamn this is dumb.
MataVatnik@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I, too, come to the internet to feel and act generally mad
NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Not gonna lie, writing code in various ways can be more efficient processing time wise, but often at the cost of complexity, or readability or time to code it.
As phones have gotten faster, and depending on what I’m working on, I’ll take the easier to code and read route than the absolutely best optimized route.
Although there are definitely times you still need to optimize
jorp@lemmy.world 6 months ago
It’s less about individual developers writing bad code and more about whole inefficient frameworks gaining popularity because of ease of use or deployment
NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Are those frameworks so poorly written they can’t be optimized then? That’d have a pretty substantial impact if widely adopted.
Asifall@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Because ram is incredibly cheap and developer hours are incredibly expensive. I think it’s a bit silly too but there’s just no financial incentive for companies to care about memory usage when they know most consumer devices have tones of extra headroom.