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To quote some people: "Free RAM is wasted RAM". That's why all programs should have memory leaks.
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fuckwit12186y@SgnfcntOverflow no. That statement is targeted at your normal work flow. If you have 32 gigs and all you do is browse the web you have wasted a lot of money on memory you don't need.
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@fuckwit I've actually never heard anyone use it in that way. It's mostly people responding to posts about Chrome/Android Studio/Firefox/whatever using too much RAM that say that phrase
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@SgnfcntOverflow that statement means that you should only free resources if memory is a constraint as loading the resource again when you need it again will slow you down
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@electrineer I never said what it does or doesn't mean or that it's inherently incorrect. I simply addressed the fact that most people saying that use it as an excuse for software to unnecessarily allocate more memory than they actually need (I'm not talking about caching purposes here), sometimes even going as far as telling people to get more ram for their machines because 16/32 gb are minimum nowadays
__slight__ memory issue here.
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