>With the price of ram going up by 5x, I want to see our industry move in the opposite direction. Computers for regular people should go back to 4gb or even 2gb of ram, just to keep the prices sane.
replySure. Right along with Intel Core 2 Duo and Windows Vista.
Modern CPUs and memory, just less ram
replyI wonder how much we could reclaim just by going back to 32-bit pointers. If we're going back to 4GB it should be fine, right?
replyYes and no. If I recall, 32 bit windows has a fixed allocation of 3gb for userland and 1gb for the kernel’s memory space. I think 32bit only really works well for memory sizes smaller than 4gb. It might not be worth it, given a lot of OSes are in the process of deprecating 32bit support.
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