memory upgrade performance

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quoth Ken Moffat:
| I have 256 megs memory and am thinking of going to 512. Will I see a
| large difference in performance?

depends.

run top for awhile and see if during the course of things you ever 
exceed the need for 256.

one place where i've seen performance boosts, albeit not vast, is in 
compiling fairly big things; i gather that given the opportunity gcc 
will cache some stuff in memory, but this is just a guess. noticed it 
even with going from 1.0 to 1.5 gigs.
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