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[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Well maybe, it's just storage like HD or RAM.

But to do what (outside scientific software)?

[–] frezik@midwest.social 1 points 1 month ago

Make everything faster. Space that isn't used for caching data is space that's wasted.

This isn't necessarily about apps that run on your desktop or phone. Most code in the world runs on servers, and the use cases are different.