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by mistrial9 1178 days ago
a huge amount of effort went into managing "soft loading" assets in RAM pre-1995 or so, even later. To swap allocated blocks in and out well was very much a thing. Games got away with different tricks since forever, then secondly desktop work apps with non-trivial parts included things like this. Does it make you sharper or the work more interesting to have to jump through hoops on a regular basis? YMMV