Hi Charles! :-)

 JB>> If you can buy a CPU twice the speed (or twice as many)
 JB>> with the money you save on ram swap can be good. 
 CA> Possibly. But at some point you lose the option to double CPU
 CA> speed. 
Well, two times the CPU power is worth absolutely nothing if your system is
forced to swap stuff in and out all the time. You lose quite a lot of
performance by having to wait for the hard disk. Going to disk is easily
worth thousands of machine cycles on GHz CPUs.

Ciao
Pascal

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