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[–] PixxlMan@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The idea is that increasing road capacity will increase demand and basically make traffic as bas again and similarly "just add more ram"-ing will just lead to developers using less memory efficient practices leading the same situation down the line.

[–] lowleveldata@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Which is a flaw logic as it implies

  1. The RAM capacity of any PC is a publicly available information like the road capacity; AND
  2. Electron app developers are checking info of 1. (if it's somehow available) to decide how they optimize their app. Which doesn't seems reasonable as electron apps are not games and thus not expected to use 100% RAM.
[–] PixxlMan@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Of course the average amount of ram in computers isn't some secret. What are you on about? It's only thanks to the fact that we have gigabytes of ram these days that inefficient practices are possible. If developers didn't know that, they would have no idea that was possible. How on earth do you think developers would ever optimise software and determine their performance requirements if specs were unknown? I'm not saying they're snooping on YOU individually (although there's a ton of telemetry these days everywhere and ram is probably a common statistic collected by software - Steam's hardware survey is public and shows millions of computer's specs. Any software you use knows your ram capacity - it's not secret. The ram capacity of newly sold systems is public is obviously shown on spec sheets)...

[–] lowleveldata@programming.dev 0 points 1 year ago

... and electron app developers are optimizing according to Steam’s hardware survey? How does that make any sense?