What are thoughts on the recent improvements in hardware ove

What are thoughts on the recent improvements in hardware over the past decade? Would an increase in working memory size that would reduce the need to have programs read from disk persuade you to think otherwise?

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Increasing in working memory size would reduce the programs read from disk. To execute the program we need to load the program to main memory. If the memory size is less we need to load the modules as required, by replacing exising code in memory.

With increase in working memory dynamic data objects can be allocated effieciently as more free memory is available.

With increase in stack size the growing need of recursive programs execution can be handled efficiently.

By overall increase of memory dynamic allocations can be handled efficiently, part of code reloading is reduced.