On 21/02/2013 16:17, Tim wrote:
On Wed, 2013-02-20 at 11:12 -0800, Joe Zeff wrote:
Back in the early days, programmers spent the time and effort to optimize their code because time is money and RAM was expensive.
And not there... On many personal computers, the limit to what you could put into the computer could be quite low. Even on fairly recent ones. I was given a 3 GHz 64 bit box that you can only put two one gig memory sticks in. A very short sighted design.
Yeah, tell me about it. Even relatively recent Intel chipsets (e.g. X38/X48) only supported up to 8GB of RAM. Slightly earlier chipsets for the Core2 only supported up to 4GB, of which you only usually got 3.5GB (I have such a machine here). So much for the 64-bitness bringing the benefits of lots of RAM...
Gordan