• Reginald_T_Biter@lemmy.world
      11·
      11 months ago

      👎 download more RAM

      👍 make software use less RAM make development take 10 times longer and get fired from your precarious dev job as you wasted time making optimisations no one needed nor asked for

      Fixed that for ya

      • fuck_u_spez_in_particular@lemmy.world
        4·
        11 months ago

        Non ironically: In practice it mostly boils down to experience, writing relatively efficient software should not take much more time or even long term accelerate development (less time to wait) (I don’t talk about the last few percent of compiler reverse-engineered SIMD optimisation that takes time…)

        I detest the state modern web development has downspiraled to. I bet I’m faster writing a big application in Vanilla js vs using the abomination that Next.Js has come to…

        • Reginald_T_Biter@lemmy.world
          1·
          11 months ago

          I wish that were true but writting efficient software, with low allocation, low memory foot print, all that good stuff, definitely takes more time.

          • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip
            1·
            11 months ago

            It’s a culture problem too. Just today, reading about OLPC:

            Jim Gettys, responsible for the OLPC laptops’ system software, has called for a re-education of programmers, saying that many applications use too much memory or even leak memory. “There seems to be a common fallacy among programmers that using memory is good: on current hardware it is often much faster to recompute values than to have to reference memory to get a precomputed value. A full cache miss can be hundreds of cycles, and hundreds of times the power use of an instruction that hits in the first level cache.”[54]