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0 pointsIllniyar8y ago0 comments

And did knowledge of bits help solve the memory issue?

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I've done stuff where memory usage shrank from 30-60GB to under 2GB, and load times went from many minutes to essentially instant (mmap on the bits Vs needing to build objects).

afpx8y ago

That was implicit. Of course it did! :-) And, cut server costs in half, too.

auggierose8y ago

I like bits, too, but cutting it in half means it is still exponential ;-)

afpx8y ago

To be fair, the savings are way above 50%, honestly. But, I didn't want to claim a bigger number without digging in more, and 50% was a very conservative upper bound. But, yeah, you're right.

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MichaelGG8y ago

I've done stuff where memory usage shrank from 30-60GB to under 2GB, and load times went from many minutes to essentially instant (mmap on the bits Vs needing to build objects).

afpx8y ago

That was implicit. Of course it did! :-) And, cut server costs in half, too.

auggierose8y ago

I like bits, too, but cutting it in half means it is still exponential ;-)

afpx8y ago

To be fair, the savings are way above 50%, honestly. But, I didn't want to claim a bigger number without digging in more, and 50% was a very conservative upper bound. But, yeah, you're right.

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