Chris Dollin <ch**********@hp.comwrites:
[1GB of what? The-here desktop machine has (fx:grope) 2Gb of memory; a one-
off 1Gb binary tree I could just read into a C program. You could just buy
more memory. (But remember who I work for ...)]
One of the places I work, I could file an Engineering Support
Services request online and in a few minutes a nice man would
show up with a handful of DIMMs and install them for me, no
questions asked. I imagine I could ask for 4 GB or so of RAM
before I'd need my manager to sign off on it.
But it's not normal, most of the time, to design software so that
it only runs efficiently with the latest and greatest and
highest-specced hardware. It's better, when you can, to make
your software work on the widest range of hardware that doesn't
require major algorithmic inconvenience.
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Ben Pfaff
http://benpfaff.org