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From: Francois Labreque
Date: 14 Aug 2012 20:12:24
Message: <502ae968$1@news.povray.org>
Le 2012-08-14 17:03, Orchid Win7 v1 a écrit :
>>> Still, if it's as trivial as you claim to have multiple TB of RAM back
>>> in 1995, why didn't they do that?
>>
>> I don't think anyone said it was "trivial" - just "possible".
>>
>> Neither of those implies "cheap" or "desirable in all circumstances"
>> either.
>
> I said "why would you want a 140GB heap when it's impossible to have
> that much RAM?"
>
> And everyone was like "OMG, are you kidding? Of COURSE you can have
> hundreds of GB of RAM. EVERYBODY does this ALL THE TIME for EVERYTHING!
> If your company doesn't do this then they're just being cheap."

[Citation required]

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