It Fit in Memory and Was Still Unusable — Do the Bandwidth Arithmetic First

Originally published on hexisteme notes. "Will it fit on our hardware?" is the wrong first question. It's the one everyone asks, because it's free to answer — the thing either loads or it doesn't. Throughput costs you a measurement. So the capacity gate passes, and it feels like the decision is made. The measurement Mac Mini M4, 24GB unified...