<div dir="ltr">The "everyone owns a mega computer so resources dont matter" is a silly argument and just leads to sloppy work and lends itself as the "perfect excuse".<div><br></div><div>I have 128 gig of ram on 2 of my machines so why should I suffer and have programs only use 8 because you don't? Its a silly argument and a bad way to go. Programs should be efficient, that doesn't mean minimal it just means efficient. </div>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 2:25 AM, lists <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bmarsh@bmarsh.com" target="_blank">bmarsh@bmarsh.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<pre>That's not really very much, when you consider that my PC has 8 GB RAM. Modern PCs are stuffed to the gills with RAM, why not take advantage of it?
We no longer live in the era when CPU cycles and memory bits were to be treated like diamonds. You paid for all that horsepower -- put it to use.
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<font face="Arial">No, but having had problems with the complexity
and overhead that akonadi brings, I would rather do without it.
It does not play nicely.</font><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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