Am 14.08.2012 23:03, schrieb Orchid Win7 v1:

> 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.

Yes, everyone was like that indeed.

> EVERYBODY does this ALL THE TIME for EVERYTHING!

No, nobody was like that.

Your question was based on the presumption that "it's impossible to have 
that much RAM"; everyone disagreed with that presumption and told you 
so, and examples were given that proved it wrong.

> If your company doesn't do this then they're just being cheap."

Well, actually everyone was like "If your company doesn't do this it 
doesn't mean a thing; there may be other reasons than outright 
impossibility."

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On Tue, 14 Aug 2012 22:03:49 +0100, Orchid Win7 v1 wrote:

>>> 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."

No, I don't think anyone responded that way.

Jim

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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."

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