Re: Does increasing RAM 512 MB -> 1 GB lead to better performance?

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On Tue, 2005-11-01 at 15:40 +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote:
> > How often do you deal with large data sets?
> 
> What is a 'large data set'? I often see this term but not very sure
> what it means...

Any data that fills up your RAM is "large".

For example, gqview uses *gobs* of memory trying to open an 80MB
TIFF file.

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