Balancing Memory Usage vs Performance?

Posted by Cliff on Friday June 21, 2002 @08:21PM from the it's-all-about-the-tradeoff dept.

TwistedTR writes "I work for a company currently developing an application to run in an environment with a very small sum of available memory (sub 6 megs). My boss and I are in disagreement over speed vs memory overhead. He feels that speed is 100% key reguardless of the memory overhead required to meet it. The application is very math intensive so the more lookup tables we pre-generate at load time the faster the overall application runs. However, my boss is having me take us dangerously to the point where our target environment is going to run out of memory. The application makes use of user inputted data, and if the user so chooses it can be a WHOLE lot of data, which also uses a decent chunk of memory. My boss will not fold on my request to sacrifice some speed to prevent a possible fatal memory fill up. Has anyone out there had experience in dealing with developing in a simmilar situation, and if so do you have any ideas of how to balance performance vs memory on such a restrictive environment?"

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No-one needs more than 64k! by joostje · 2002-06-21 20:33 · Score: 0, Troll

environment with a very small sum of available memory (sub 6 megs)

Didn't Bill already explain to us that no-one ever needs more than 64k? So, what's your problem?

You're not seriously saying thta Bill could be wrong, are you?