on memorystarting from 2026 computer memory is no longer available for purchase, we must make current software to run without problems on 8GBhttps://www.theregister.com/2025/12/23/memory_software_opinion/The relentless climb in memory prices driven by the AI boom's insatiable demand for datacenter hardware has renewed an old debate about whether modern software has grown inexcusably fat, a column by the Register argues. The piece points to Windows Task Manager as a case study: the current executable occupies 6MB on disk and >demands nearly 70MB of RAM just to display system information, compared to the original's 85KB footprint."Its successor is not orders of magnitude more functional," the column notes. The author draws a parallel to the 1970s fuel crisis, when energy shortages spurred efficiency gains, and argues that today's memory crunch could force similar discipline. "Developers should consider precisely how much of a framework they really need and devote effort to efficiency," the column adds. "Managers must ensure they also have the space to do so."The article acknowledges that "reversing decades of application growth will not happen overnight" but calls for toolchains to be rethought and rewards given "for compactness, both at rest and in operation."
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>>524372562we won't even have the rare earth metals for hardware where we're going. And that's a good thing.
>>524372562I wouldnt need more memory if the NSA wasnt constantly spying on me thus draining my CPU
>>524372562White men will have jobs again, because this requires understanding memory addressing and registers.It also fucks over MicroShit and their hoard of poolies, as they're trying to completely move away from C++.
