> But with the advent of 8-16+ GB of ram in consumer computers can we really say 2-3GB for windows rendering is heavy?
This attitude is why we have phones with 1G of memory and 1Ghz+ CPU's lagging when just trying to read email.
Yes, there is more memory available than before, but that doesn't mean we should just waste it for useless stuff.
For example if we eat 2-3GB of memory on a system with 8GB of memory, thats over 25% of the usage. Then some applications that are actually used. (Let me use my own process mem counts here...) 1.3Gb for Firefox, 0.6Gb for Android emulator, 0.5Gb for Visual studio....
And there would have gone over half of the 8GB of ram!
I am sure my current memory usage would be half of what its now if developers would actually give some shit about memory usage... Not just allocate too much memory because "there is so much memory it doesn't matter"
This attitude is why we have phones with 1G of memory and 1Ghz+ CPU's lagging when just trying to read email.
Yes, there is more memory available than before, but that doesn't mean we should just waste it for useless stuff.
For example if we eat 2-3GB of memory on a system with 8GB of memory, thats over 25% of the usage. Then some applications that are actually used. (Let me use my own process mem counts here...) 1.3Gb for Firefox, 0.6Gb for Android emulator, 0.5Gb for Visual studio....
And there would have gone over half of the 8GB of ram!
I am sure my current memory usage would be half of what its now if developers would actually give some shit about memory usage... Not just allocate too much memory because "there is so much memory it doesn't matter"