JP Mens

Lucky for me that I had a console open and visible!

#rusting

Apr 15 at 11:41amWeb
Show threadTim Chase21h ago

@jpmens something about this saddens me. I remember Turbo Pascal running blazingly fast on my parents' 286 with 640KB of memory and a slow 30MB spinning-rust HDD. A quick web search says it needed less than 512KB for the full IDE+compiler, and about 256KB for just the command-line compiler.

That Rust would die with an out-of-memory error in a world where computers have GBs of RAM and mindbogglingly faster CPUs/disks…the soul weeps.

Show threadJP Mens21h ago
@gumnos 4GB RAM is yesteryear’s 128Kb. (I had to increase RAM to 6GB for the program to compile.)
Show threadd@nny disc@ mc²16h ago
@gumnos @jpmens one would think the advancement of technology would allow for less resource usage to bootstrap basic utilities over time
Show threadJohn Breen16h ago
@hipsterelectron @gumnos @jpmens One of my Laws, like Moore's, is that software will expand to use 110% of all available resources. And developers always have the fastest machines.
The HW sellers love that because you ALWAYS need faster HW next year, to do what you could do last year. It rewards inefficiency.
I'm waiting for the return of the Archons.
Show threadd@nny disc@ mc²16h ago
@jab01701mid @gumnos @jpmens one of my fervent beliefs and things that i work towards is to undermine the power of hardware (and software) vendors to determine downstream software decisions in this manner
Show threadd@nny disc@ mc²16h ago
@gumnos @jpmens to some degree we can see this play out with work such as the gnu mes bootstrap regime by @janneke and friends. one angle i am working on in general is bootstrapping from arbitrary seeds as opposed to a single specific one. but that's not quite the same as resource usage as you identify here