Ask HN: Why is the hunger for RAM never satisfied?
by prmph on Hacker News.
Throw 16GB at a system and start up a few browsers and other programs, and pretty they have used up almost all the RAM. It seems browsers in particular will happily eat all the RAM they can. Why is this? At what point will the hunger of apps for RAM be satiated? With 32GB? 64GB? With all the advances in tech, why are our hardware still struggling to keep up with demands of the apps we use?