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Re:Writing memory efficient C structs by jcelerier on Wednesday July 30, 2025 @08:00PM (#44740959)
> But these days, in most areas, memory is cheap and plentiful

and that's why I am contemplating freaking 128G of ram for my next machine, I have 64 right now and OOM regularly, 32 is unuseable

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Re:Writing memory efficient C structs by zahlman on Wednesday July 30, 2025 @10:04PM (#44741647)
What software are you running? I'm humming along without a problem on 8.
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Re:Writing memory efficient C structs by jcelerier on Wednesday July 30, 2025 @11:42PM (#44742121)
just an instance of GCC on a larger file with some complex C++ will easily eat multiple gigabytes of RAM
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Re:Writing memory efficient C structs by davrosthedalek on Thursday July 31, 2025 @08:20AM (#44744887)
You are not supposed to reimplement DOOM with templates.
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Re:Writing memory efficient C structs by munificent on Thursday July 31, 2025 @12:55PM (#44747553)
You're not the boss of me!
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Re:Writing memory efficient C structs by davrosthedalek on Thursday July 31, 2025 @05:21PM (#44750351)
Are you sure?
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