On Oct 21, 2007, at 15:21 , Maurí cio wrote:
Of course. But I think of somethink like a Intel 386 with 4MB of memory.
It's kinda surprising to me how many people think that just because current/modern implementations of things use memory wastefully, this is somehow mandatory. When machines were smaller, programs used algorithms which were suited to those machines; the reason they don't now is to some extent laziness but also because those algorithms often didn't scale to larger available memory (i.e. you get *big* speedups with more profligate algorithms when the memory they want is available). -- brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] allbery@kf8nh.com system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH