Re: Are these all really true ?

andrewn@kaleida.com (Andrew Nicholson)
Thu, 21 Sep 1995 18:20:42 GMT

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From: andrewn@kaleida.com (Andrew Nicholson)
Keywords: OOP
Organization: Kaleida Labs, Inc.
References: 95-09-076
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 1995 18:20:42 GMT

>===== ACADEMIC ASSUMPTIONS - ARE THESE ALL REALLY TRUE ? ======
>* Memory is free, speed is what is worth optimizing.


Depends on the application. We have a current consumer market that
is still mostly 8Mb machines. The OS takes 2-3Mb away leaving 5-6Mb
for the applications.


Multimedia is inherently a memory hog. We are constantly looking
for ways to reduce memory usage. Speed is still important but
memory turns out in these applications to be the hardest to
deal with.


In the ITV set top boxes and the game machines you'll be lucky
to get 2Mb of RAM just because of the price point that the market
wants.


Memory isn't free.
--
Andrew Nicholson andrewn@kaleida.com
                                                  http://www.kaleida.com/u/andrewn/


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