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so there are still people...

Posted Mar 18, 2018 23:47 UTC (Sun) by Paf (subscriber, #91811)
In reply to: so there are still people... by PengZheng
Parent article: Malcolm: Usability improvements in GCC 8

Ah, so “enough memory” is an amount that only stopped being absurd in the last two years or so, and is still double what standard desktops ship with. No wonder it didn’t work well on my six year old work PC.

Every other Linux coding tool I use doesn’t care what hardware I give it as long as it’s got a desktop class CPU (ie is not a Rasberry Pi or similar). 16 GB is totally reasonable for a heavy duty development workstation, but it’s still quite a bit of RAM...

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so there are still people...

Posted Mar 21, 2018 7:56 UTC (Wed) by jezuch (subscriber, #52988) [Link] (1 responses)

> 16 GB is totally reasonable for a heavy duty development workstation

I thought that as well. My company's procurement though this too. Unfortunately I'm doing Java at work :) Between all the dev tools (I had to increase the heap space for the IDE to fit all the projects I'm working on), the test instances, the million browser tabs with documentation, there's precious little space left for Virtualbox that is needed to communicate with the rest of the company via a certain "enterprise grade" teleconferencing software with an annoyingly proprietary protocol.

But I manage ;)

so there are still people...

Posted Mar 22, 2018 14:04 UTC (Thu) by Wol (subscriber, #4433) [Link]

And yet 16GB wasn't that expensive ...

I know RAM prices yoyo, but I was lucky and maxed out my motherboard with 4x4GB DDR3 about 5 years ago at about £13/DIMM. £60 for the lot ...

I now want to max out my new mobo but 4x16GB DDR4 at £150/DIMM is a bit much!

Cheers,
Wol