Re: Wow! Is memory ever cheap!

H. Peter Anvin
2001-05-07T20:01:54Z

Larry McVoy wrote:
>
> On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 12:33:57PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > Larry McVoy wrote:
> > > > Because your original post was "yeah, Bitkeeper is a memory hog but you
> > > > can get really cheap non-ECC RAM so just stuff your system with crappy
> > > > RAM and be happy."
>
> > I wasn't the one who said it, you did. I don't have any evidence either
> > way.
>
> Err, Peter, it's starting to sound like you have some ax to grind that I
> don't know about. So I'll bow out of this conversation.
>

The only axe I have to grind was the obvious application myopia of your
original post... "my application is the only one that matters." That's
all.

-hpa

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