On a side note inspired by this blog post.
I'm wondering if humans are mostly incapable of producing great things without (artifical) restrictions.
In this case, marginalia is (ridiculously) efficient because Victor (the creator) is intentionally restricting what hardware it runs on and how much ram it has.
If he just caved in and added another 32GiB it would work for a while, but the inefficient design would persist and the problem would just show it's head later and then there would be more complexity around that design and it might not be as easy to fix then.
If the original thesis is correct, then I think it explains why most software is so bad (bloated, slow, buggy) nowadays. It's because very few individual pieces of software nowadays are hitting any limits (in isolation). So each individual piece is terribly inefficient but with the latest M2 Pro and GiB connection you can just keep ahead of the curve where it becomes a problem.
Anyways, turned into a rant; but the conclusion might be to limit yourself, and you (and e everyone else) will be better off long term.
I'm wondering if humans are mostly incapable of producing great things without (artifical) restrictions.
In this case, marginalia is (ridiculously) efficient because Victor (the creator) is intentionally restricting what hardware it runs on and how much ram it has.
If he just caved in and added another 32GiB it would work for a while, but the inefficient design would persist and the problem would just show it's head later and then there would be more complexity around that design and it might not be as easy to fix then.
If the original thesis is correct, then I think it explains why most software is so bad (bloated, slow, buggy) nowadays. It's because very few individual pieces of software nowadays are hitting any limits (in isolation). So each individual piece is terribly inefficient but with the latest M2 Pro and GiB connection you can just keep ahead of the curve where it becomes a problem.
Anyways, turned into a rant; but the conclusion might be to limit yourself, and you (and e everyone else) will be better off long term.