Subj : Re: Browser tabs
To   : Spectre
From : boraxman
Date : Wed Mar 30 2022 22:37:41

-=> Spectre wrote to boraxman <=-

 bo> The more power that they offer in computers, the more profligate and
 bo> wasteful we become. I'm using a computer with 2G of RAM. Must admit,
 bo> it originally had 1G and that wasn't enough, but 2G is just enough.

 Sp> Mostly I concur with you there... The faster we go and the more memory
 Sp> we have available generally the code seems to get sloppier and larger
 Sp> out of proportion with its actual abilities or function.

 Sp> 1Gb was sufficient probably back at XP, since then and with 64bit as
 Sp> opposed to 32, more memory has become a bigger requirement. I'm poking
 Sp> about on a Core2 Quad as the daily compute, and for a long time
 Sp> functioned quite happily in 4Gb of RAM, but had to extend it to 8 after
 Sp> I started poking about in FO4. 4Gb left it swimming out in swap space
 Sp> far to much of the time, and the extra RAM picked up the performance
 Sp> out of sight.

 Sp> Spec

My desktop computer has 8G of RAM, which I got in 2009.  I have rarely run out
of RAM, and the only times I have, it is when there was a memory leak or I ran
a ramdisk and filled it up.

I do run Linux, and avoid running electron apps, and bloated stuff.  The most
bloated program I would run is Firefox or Brave.
 
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