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		jcelerier 9 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Writing memory efficient C structs > 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

zahlman 9 months ago [–]

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

jcelerier 9 months ago | [–]

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

davrosthedalek 9 months ago | | [–]

You are not supposed to reimplement DOOM with templates.

munificent 9 months ago | | [–]

You're not the boss of me!

davrosthedalek 9 months ago | | [–]

Are you sure?

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