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phito 73 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Hold on to Your Hardware

Less RAM usage doesn't equal better performances or faster software. It actually might mean the opposite, if you're not caching things in RAM.

account42 70 days ago [–]

If a TODO list app has more than 16MB of data it could possibly cache in RAM then there is already something seriously wrong.

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