Reminds me of the possibly apocryphal story of the missile whos guidance system had a memory leak.
They profiled the memory leak and gave the chip enough RAM that it wouldn't fill up before the missile exploded. Problem solved!
They profiled the memory leak and gave the chip enough RAM that it wouldn't fill up before the missile exploded. Problem solved!
The thought was that you would rather overheat and perform the calculation than protect the circuit and lose the ship. It's kind of a hail mary strategy. It definitely gave me a visceral feeling for how one should be ready to re-frame their systems analyses, even if apocryphal.