This is the same argument made by [pick a vendor] since [pick a year].
Seriously - Sun, Oracle, Microsoft, IBM have all been in this situation over the past twenty-five years, for both server apps and developer tools. Heck, even for some versions of MS Office and Oracle Forms.
If it's been that way since 4MB of RAM was a lot, what makes you think that getting to 16GB is somehow going to fix things? The platform tools will continue to expand, slightly overflowing whatever size container you provide, until we learn how to stop wasting so much CPU and RAM.
How? Now that is a blog post I'd like to read.
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This is the same argument made by [pick a vendor] since [pick a year].
Seriously - Sun, Oracle, Microsoft, IBM have all been in this situation over the past twenty-five years, for both server apps and developer tools. Heck, even for some versions of MS Office and Oracle Forms.
If it's been that way since 4MB of RAM was a lot, what makes you think that getting to 16GB is somehow going to fix things? The platform tools will continue to expand, slightly overflowing whatever size container you provide, until we learn how to stop wasting so much CPU and RAM.
How? Now that is a blog post I'd like to read.