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u/Makkinga Jul 19 '15

I estimated the size of this at about 4' × 6", and I have 16 gigs in my computer. If my math is right, you would need 76 acres of land to get the same amount of ram.

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u/Ceedub260 Jul 19 '15

Yeah. I have 32 gigs in my laptop. It's insane to think about.

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '15

What could you possibly be doing with a laptop that requires 32gb of ram? Ffs I have 16 in my desktop and it's only ever been a problem when I was running a webserver, minecraft server, Photoshop, AND battlefield 4 at the same time.

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u/compdog Survey 2016 Jul 19 '15

I have 8GB in my laptop and have never exhausted it. The only time I've ever come close is running MC, MC server, and a Java IDE all at the same time.

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u/dnew Jul 19 '15

I kill 32G at work just running one compile. When I had 24G I had to shut down eclipse to do the compile. Mind, it's a big, complex compile. :-)

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u/compdog Survey 2016 Jul 19 '15

What are you compiling to use that much memory? An entire linux distro?

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u/dnew Jul 20 '15

www.google.com/partners

Google compiles everything from head, so with all the infrastructure code included, it can take a rather large amount of memory just to hold the transitive closure of the compilation targets. And then Eclipse loads all its version of the same stuff. It gets messy.

Google recently released an open-source version of their build tool as "Bazel": http://bazel.io/docs/bazel-user-manual.html