The point is that you’re not fixing the problem, you’re just masking it (and one could even argue enabling it).

The same way adding another 4 lane highway doesn’t fix traffic long term (increasing highway throughput leads to more people leads to more cars leads to congestion all over again) simply adding more RAM is only a temporary solution.

Developers use the excuse of people having access to more RAM as justification to produce more and more bloated software. In 5 years you’ll likely struggle even with 32GiB, because everything uses more.
That’s not sustainable, and it’s not necessary.

The same way adding another 4 lane highway doesn’t fix traffic long term (increasing highway throughput leads to more people leads to more cars leads to congestion all over again) simply adding more RAM is only a temporary solution.

How is adding more RAM a temporary solution? It would lead more workload to the CPU… which is good?

  1. People have enough RAM.
  2. Developers see people getting more RAM.
  3. Developers allow their software to use more RAM (either by doing more cool stuff or optimizing less stuff).
  4. People have little RAM.
  5. People buy more RAM.
  6. goto 1;

This also applies to CPU and GPU.

You’re giving the devs too much credit. They didn’t give a fuck even when we have not enough RAM. Otherwise this post won’t be such a common experience.

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