Every time a new piece of software comes out people whine about it eating up too much memory. I have 4GB of RAM and a quad core, why not let applications use it?
Chrome for instance is far more responsive than Firefox 3 or IE on my PC, it loads instantly (without any noticeable delay) and it uses memory and processing that I have available. Why are people whinging over x amounts of memory being used?
I can't wait until software goes widespread with parallel processing. Why constrain a system with a lot of resources to using an insignificant amount? People judge a software application by the amount of memory it uses. When I see a piece of software these days that uses jack all memory I think that it isn't the most efficient software because it makes little use of available resources.
What about building applications that scale with the available resources?
Chrome for instance is far more responsive than Firefox 3 or IE on my PC, it loads instantly (without any noticeable delay) and it uses memory and processing that I have available. Why are people whinging over x amounts of memory being used?
I can't wait until software goes widespread with parallel processing. Why constrain a system with a lot of resources to using an insignificant amount? People judge a software application by the amount of memory it uses. When I see a piece of software these days that uses jack all memory I think that it isn't the most efficient software because it makes little use of available resources.
What about building applications that scale with the available resources?