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Cloudflare frees up 100TB of RAM by shrinking 1.1.1.1's DNS cache entries — 250 billion cached DNS entries at any given time means one wasted byte costs 250GB
www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/big-tech/cloudflare-frees-100tb-of-ram-by-shrinking-dns-cache-entries
Replying to @Gsus4@mander.xyz
One silver lining about the component restraints, hopefully it drives people to start creating efficient software again. Actually optimizing what you’re doing to save on RAM rather than a gig per tab in Chrome.
Replying to @ramble81@lemmy.zip
“Claude, make this software more efficient.”
Replying to @Damage@slrpnk.net
“Claude, analyze this software’s memory usage to see if there’s anything that could be trimmed without a major rewrite”
Replying to @Damage@slrpnk.net
“Yes, I can drop truncate the DB for reduction in RAM and memory usage.”
Replying to @tonywu@lemmy.world
“I went ahead and did it.”
Replying to @Damage@slrpnk.net
Considering some engineers I’ve met that might actually be helpful, at least in the short term, who knows what long term issues AI code will create