or “How to drive away the evil skull”

At all times main memory was one of the most limited resources in computing. Although from 20 years to now the memory setup of a typical desktop PC has increased by a factor of several thousands (from less than a megabyte to a few gigabytes), we still need to consider how to efficiently handle that resource.

The reason of course lies in the increasing demands of modern applications. Today it might be darktable which is the single most challenging software to hit the boundaries of your system.