kazing··on Visual Studio '11' AnnouncedI have not heard of a single VS instance taking over 4GB of RAM. The only time you'll get into trouble is with multiple VS instances - and there 40 bucks for another 4GB of RAM pay off instantly.
kazing··on Why is C++ still a very popular language in quantitative finance?C++11 is a very modern language. It seems to be moving faster than Java these days.