On 06/10/2017 00:38, Stefan Ram wrote:
"Fetchinson ." <fetchin...@googlemail.com> writes:
I have a rather simple program which cycles through a bunch of files,
does some operation on them, and then quits. There are 500 files
involved and each operation takes about 5-10 MB of memory. As you'll
see I tried to make every attempt at removing everything at the end of
each cycle so that memory consumption doesn't grow as the for loop
progresses, but it still does.
"2x 8GB DIMM DDR3-1600" cost $95.99 according to a web page.
This might be in the order of magnitude of the hourly rate
of a freelancing programmer.
Brilliant. We can forget about freeing memory or garbage collection,
just keep adding a 16GB bank of memory every few hours. It's cheaper
that paying a programmer to write memory-efficient code or fixing the
memory leak!
(That's assuming such a program will only run on the programmer's
machine and not a million consumer machines who would also need to fork
out for extra memory. Their salaries may not stretch as far.)
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