Post #2571014
2026-05-10 12:40 UTC
@the_wub@mastodon.social @tokyo_0@mas.to
Back in the 486DX2 / Pentium-1 days the main limit was available memory; swap space a band aid just so you could actually run software.
Back in those days you actually had to terminate programs just to free up resources if you wanted to do something else.
Even today I maintain the opinion, that programs should be developed with a mindset, that starting them should be nearly instantanuos.
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@datenwolf@chaos.social 2026-05-10 12:43
@the_wub@mastodon.social @tokyo_0@mas.to Here's a fun fact: Since Suspend-to-RAM is pretty much miss-and-sometimes-hit on my new Threadripper workstation, I instead went the Hibernate / Suspend-to-Disk route. However, it turns out that saving/restoring system memory state to/from disk takes an order of magnitude longer, than just launching all the programs I tend to keep open from scratch. If there was a coherent method to re-/store session state I'd prefer regular shutdown/poweron over hibernation.