From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Sep 19 09:01:46 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id JAA13318 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 19 Sep 1995 09:01:46 -0700 Received: from netcom15.netcom.com (bakul@netcom15.netcom.com [192.100.81.128]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id JAA13313 for ; Tue, 19 Sep 1995 09:01:44 -0700 Received: from localhost by netcom15.netcom.com (8.6.12/Netcom) id IAA09962; Tue, 19 Sep 1995 08:58:26 -0700 Message-Id: <199509191558.IAA09962@netcom15.netcom.com> To: Heikki Suonsivu cc: freebsd-hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: Policy on printf format specifiers? In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 19 Sep 95 11:31:42 +0300." <199509190831.LAA20037@shadows.cs.hut.fi> Date: Tue, 19 Sep 95 08:58:24 -0700 From: Bakul Shah Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Yes, and I also think that 640kbytes of memory is certainly enough for > anything you would want to do with your computer. Cute but it misses the point. If N bytes are enough, using 2N bytes for a benefit that one won't see for ages, if ever, is a waste for any value of N. Especially when there is an immediate cost of doing so [allocating twice as much memory means you will take twice as many page faults etc. etc.]. Make a few decisions like this and you'll have slow moving monster programs for which 640Mbytes won't be enough.