[WheelsAtLarge]

No, even at these high memory prices it's cheaper to produce code as fast as possible than to spend the time to optimize it for efficiency. It has always been the case that hardware improves at a faster pace than software. So what will happen is that we will get tech improvements in hardware that will reduce its price faster than we can write software to fully take advantage of the hardware. The current bottle neck that's causing the spike in memory prices will subside relatively soon so we'll be in better shape before we know it.

[antinomicus]

Will we? I don’t think new capacity will come online for several years and at the current rate there’s not a lot of evidence that the new capacity won’t simply be scooped up by the big data centers like they are now. At the very least we’re in for a rough 4 years at least

[WheelsAtLarge]

True, it will be years before the supply expands but that does not negate the fact that it's cheaper to buy hardware than to try to squeeze performance out of software.

I know we are having issues with china and they can't produce the latest tech but I suspect they will produce ram so cheap relative to the competition that companies will find away to buy from them.

[laughing_man]

It's going to be years before memory prices go down to what the were last year. At least two or three years.