Khuli;326975 Wrote: > > I tend to agree with previous posters that using 100mb (over 3,000 > times more than 32k) of memory does seem excessive. It's not > exclusively an SC issue, but programming efficiency generally seems to > have been abandoned as availability of RAM has increased.
First SC does a good bit more than those games of 30+ years ago. Second coding for efficiency can be very expensive and many times not worth the return. It also can lead to sacrificing maintainability which in the case of an open source project can lead to the end of it. I pride myself on making my code lean and mean most coders do, however when working with deadlines I know my client wants stability over lean. Reason, they have no issues throwing hardware at it, it is much cheaper than my billing rate. I have not looked into SC code, however I am willing to bet a good bit of the memory is consumed by indexes. And no using more memory does NOT equate to using more CPU power. To the comment about being worried about the times ahead because of coders saying exactly that "throw hardware at it". Well you need to understand hardware is cheap, labor is expensive, and money runs the business. As we have said over and over, if you think you can do better it is completely open code, Have at it. -- m1abrams ------------------------------------------------------------------------ m1abrams's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=850 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=50698 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
