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A comment on Ask HN: Does RAM speed matter for programming?.

Re:Ask HN: Does RAM speed matter for programming? by DatRoyce on Thursday April 09, 2015 @01:28AM (#9345922)
Generally, Programming not very resource intensive so it requires very little ram..
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Re:Ask HN: Does RAM speed matter for programming? by smt88 on Thursday April 09, 2015 @01:34AM (#9345931)
I disagree with "generally". It depends on what kind of programming you do.

I'm a web developer, so when I'm programming, I often have a database GUI, full IDE, multiple browsers, multiple Docker containers, and RDBMS running.

That ends up at about 4GB of RAM, depending on what's in my database.

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