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I’ve done that! But I also have 32GB RAM in my machine :)

I want 64 GB but I will say for my current needs, 32 GB is the sweet spot. My normal daily use is around 20GB. And it is a MacBook Pro. One day I’ll probably go back to a laptop running Linux. It is the fastest for code compilation in my experience.

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Using Linux on a desktop workstation, I'm normally able to get by with half the amount of RAM that my Macbook requires for the same activity. Probably because I'm not having to run MacOS and Linux at the same time to pretend that I'm not running Linux.

But it's not just memory, I find running code on MacOS generates a lot more heat causing the CPU to spike and harder to run in the first place.

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