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Once, I had to evaluate for rewrite a program that was written in a naive "object-oriented" style. The program built up a large graph of objects, did a few transformations, and wrote its stuff out. It ran out of memory on small subsets of the data it needed to work on.

I evaluated the program's data usage and rewrote it with the metaphor that I had to process the whole thing from a tape drive. It was still object-oriented, but the memory needs were now bounded.

tl;dr: I don't see the dichotomy.



"tl;dr:" doesn't go down well around here. (Perhaps you should have just posted the first part of your comment. That part's good.)


Ironic, considering it isn't a comment on the OP but a summary of their own post, and could easily be replaced by something like "In other words..."


Oh, you are right. I assume the down-voters did not recognize the colon, either.




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