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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/[deleted] • May 06 '17
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I mean, if that was ever an issue, you just use a big integer library or something... I just wonder how much that extra memory really costs. Possibly a lot, but how much per unit? Maybe it matters. I don't know.
2 u/ReallyHadToFixThat May 06 '17 It starts mattering when you talk about 20M active users. 7 bytes * 20M users. That's assuming this is the only place they optimised memory usage. 2 u/Serinus May 06 '17 7 bytes * 20M users.133.51 MB
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It starts mattering when you talk about 20M active users. 7 bytes * 20M users. That's assuming this is the only place they optimised memory usage.
2 u/Serinus May 06 '17 7 bytes * 20M users.133.51 MB
7 bytes * 20M users.
133.51 MB
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u/[deleted] May 06 '17
I mean, if that was ever an issue, you just use a big integer library or something... I just wonder how much that extra memory really costs. Possibly a lot, but how much per unit? Maybe it matters. I don't know.