Use the analogy of carrying weights to teach students about how the amount of memory being used affects runtime.

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  • For instance, imagine asking the student to carry many backpacks. Then ask the student to write a note while carrying all of those backpacks.
  • How difficult the above task is shows why it is difficult for the computer to balance many tasks at once given a finite amount of memory.

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