Quoting AJ MacLeod : > On Monday 28 January 2008 11:02:11 Stuart Buchanan wrote: > > > The current patch is a bit better for memory usage IIRC, but it is still > > quite hefty - a side-effect of generating all the trees at once for the > > tile. > > By all means we should be careful about needless memory usage / wastage (and > perhaps features that demand lots of memory should be disabled by default.) > > At the same time, memory is extremely cheap, (mostly) easy to upgrade and > modern PCs are generally equipped with huge amounts of it. If nice new > features require lots of memory to work well and are optional, I don't see > any particular problem...
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