You're absolutely right? I don't really disagree with anything you're saying there, that's why I said "generally" and "in practice".
replyReducing your RAM consumption is not the best approach to reducing your RAM throughput is my point. It could be effective in some specific situations, but I would definitely not say that those situations are more common than the other ones.
replyI don't understand how this connects to your original claim, which was about trading ram usage for CPU cycles. Could you elaborate?
replyFrom what I understand, increasing cache locality is orthogonal to how much RAM an app is using. It just lets the CPU get cache hits more often, so it only relates to throughout.
That might technically offload work to the CPU, but that's work the CPU is actually good at. We want to offload that.
In the case of Electron apps, they use a lot of RAM and that's not to spare the CPU