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> But these days, in most areas, memory is cheap and plentiful

and that's why I am contemplating freaking 128G of ram for my next machine, I have 64 right now and OOM regularly, 32 is unuseable



What software are you running? I'm humming along without a problem on 8.


just an instance of GCC on a larger file with some complex C++ will easily eat multiple gigabytes of RAM


You are not supposed to reimplement DOOM with templates.


You're not the boss of me!


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