In your stated case, you are saving about half a gig of DRAM ~= $10.
Really stupid. ... Kind of dumb.
If you say so. Meanwhile, higher consumption of resources (such as DRAM) causes those very resources to get cheaper. DRAM is as cheap as it is, because software is bloated. If (to wage war on bloat) we switched to hand-coding all of our software in machine-language, DRAM could get very expensive. More on that general subject is here:
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In your stated case, you are saving about half a gig of DRAM ~= $10.
Really stupid. ... Kind of dumb.
If you say so. Meanwhile, higher consumption of resources (such as DRAM) causes those very resources to get cheaper. DRAM is as cheap as it is, because software is bloated. If (to wage war on bloat) we switched to hand-coding all of our software in machine-language, DRAM could get very expensive. More on that general subject is here:
http://www.juliansimon.com/writings/Ultimate_Resource