6 times as much memory, and you are fine ⚓

Drew Crawford writing about Garbage Collection:

What this chart says is “As long as you have about 6 times as much memory as you really need, you’re fine. But woe betide you if you have less than 4x the required memory.”

Really long article, greatly done. A must read for anyone in the mobile field. (via daringfireball.net)