RAM-CPU Singularity

One of my computers is very old (PIII 667 MHz, 128 MB RAM, bought in
summer 2000) and runs Windows XP SP2. While I'm going to buy some more
RAM tomorrow, I have this idea of RAM-CPU singularity:

That is to say, software applications should sometimes treat the RAM
and CPU resources as one single computing resource, using an idle
resource to compensate the urgent needs of another kind of resource.

Based on space-time tradeoff principles in algorithm design theory, we
can redesign object libraries like STL to be able to adapt to any
extremely unbalanced space-time requirements (e.g. a very fast CPU but
very limited RAM, or a very slow CPU but very rich RAM) and able to
re-adapt to a new requirement on-the-fly. Application frameworks like
MFC, VCL or GTK should also be redesigned to serve this purpose. But
the details of resource management should be transparent to the end
developer.

There are already successful (maybe) examples of transparent tradeoffs
between different kinds of computing resources, such as virtual memory.

Regards,
Yao

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