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Re:How VSCode made bracket pair colorization 10,000x faster by xigoi on Thursday June 22, 2023 @01:43PM (#36435905)
Why is it better to have a million people buy more RAM, creating a large amount of electronic waste and emissions, instead of putting some effort into not unnecessarily wasting resources?
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Re:How VSCode made bracket pair colorization 10,000x faster by IceSentry on Friday June 23, 2023 @03:55AM (#36444043)
You don't need to buy more ram. It was already cheap a decade ago. Ram has been in the multiple gigabyte range for longer than that. Having an app that you use all the time every day use a few hundred of the otherwise unused ram is perfectly reasonable.
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