What is software bloat? Throughout my life, and the decades before, I have heard over and over again about the advances in computer hardware. I have studied how computers execute instructions, designed simple ones in RTL, and seen them get faster over time, mostly due to making use of the advances in semiconductor nodes. However, software has, on average, remained roughly the same speed and proportional memory usage throughout my lifetime, as seen in Wirth’s Law.

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  • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    1 day ago

    I could easily get by with 400MB of RAM, 3GB of storage, and a Pentium III for web hosting, as long as I’m not getting more than… a *couple hundred requests per second

    Actually, a electrical toothbrush is enough for that.

    • nkochavi@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      17 hours ago

      No way electrical toothbrushes have hundreds of megs of RAM. I thought that they were tiny embedded systems with an ATMega-tier CPU at most, if at all more than a switch, battery, and motor.

      • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zipEnglish
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        2 hours ago

        There was also one on Hackaday recently, that runs a website from a solar powered ESP32.

        And yeah, hundreds of MB RAM is also news to me. Quite a bit overengineered.