• @lowleveldata@programming.dev
    1•2 years ago

    The same way adding another 4 lane highway doesn’t fix traffic long term (increasing highway throughput leads to more people leads to more cars leads to congestion all over again) simply adding more RAM is only a temporary solution.

    How is adding more RAM a temporary solution? It would lead more workload to the CPU… which is good?

    • @MyFairJulia@lemmy.world
      5•2 years ago
      1. People have enough RAM.
      2. Developers see people getting more RAM.
      3. Developers allow their software to use more RAM (either by doing more cool stuff or optimizing less stuff).
      4. People have little RAM.
      5. People buy more RAM.
      6. goto 1;

      This also applies to CPU and GPU.

      • @lowleveldata@programming.dev
        -2•2 years ago

        You’re giving the devs too much credit. They didn’t give a fuck even when we have not enough RAM. Otherwise this post won’t be such a common experience.