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by leo_e 205 days ago
It is honestly refreshing to see constraints like this again.

In my cloud infrastructure work (C++), we have gotten lazy. We bloat our containers because 'RAM is cheap'. Seeing a system designed to fit into 1MB reminds me that performance engineering used to be about efficiency, not just throwing more hardware at the problem.

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I find this a little funny because as a firmware engineer the project I regularly work on only has 512kb of flash. This doesn't stop sales from constent new feature requests.

Embedded is definitely a fun balance of what we could do and how much we can do.