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few gb of ram ...

5 years ago I never would have given this comment a second thought.

Now I read it and have to wonder: when does the price of ram start showing up in the butchers bill from your cloud provider?

I don't know about you, but my cloud provider has been charging me for the ram on my compute instances since the beginning.

Ram has always been one of the major price drivers...

But the prices have gotten stupid: https://pcpartpicker.com/trends/price/memory/

https://appleinsider.com/articles/26/02/27/the-global-ram-an...

You have to pay that cost in a worker thread anyway, too. There’s no free lunch.

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