Comment by gavinhoward

Merad's sibling post is exactly why my machine is beefy instead of weak: I still need that power.

Of course, I run Gentoo, so...

And I run my Gentoo updates off of a ramdisk to save my SSD and for that much more does.

But if I intentionally run my code in hamstrung VM's, it achieves the effect you are advocating, which is a good thing, by the way. I do agree with you.