Re: The joy of FORTH (not)

On Tue, 22 Oct 2024 16:07:33 -0700, Peter Flass wrote:

Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

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On Tue, 22 Oct 2024 09:59:31 -0700, John Ames wrote:
 

Which, sure, beefy microcontrollers with comparatively spacious memory
loadouts are cheaper than ever, but less luxurious ones are cheaper
still - and a byte saved is, as always, a byte earned ;)

 
How much of your time did it take to save that byte?
 
Think of how many bytes you would need to save per hour of your time,
to make it worthwhile to whoever is paying for that time.
 

If it’s the difference between using what you have and buying a more
expensive board, times however-many units you’re shipping, it might not
be too many.

Presumably there is some threshold below which it simply isn’t worth
trying to save a bit of RAM. What is it nowadays: as much as 1MiB? Higher?
Lower?