Shawn Walker wrote: >> >>Let's face it, a development machine should have a >>minimum of 1GB per core. >> >>Ian >> >> > >No, it depends on what you're developing for. If you're developing *with* and >for Java, sure, you need that much memory (only half joking). > > > Oops, I forgot Java, in that case double it!
>If you're a C, C++, perl, python, or ruby developer and you're a hardened UNIX >user who swears by vi, vim, or emacs then 128mb should be enough! > > > Well the last big C++ app I worked on used to page badly compiling some files on my laptop with 1GB of RAM. Compilers (especially C++ with lots of templates) can consume vast amounts of RAM. Ian _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
