Had another 48hr game jam this weekend...

[Kapps]

On Tuesday, 17 September 2013 at 03:32:17 UTC, Manu wrote:
>
> I presume you mean megabytes?
> Well I've been working all morning since I made that comment; I 
> have about
> 100 tabs open for editing in VS now (I don't clean up open tabs 
> often >_<),
> and it's sitting at 120mb.
> VisualStudio at ~100mb is pretty bloody good comparatively!
>
> Dunno why you're seeing 200mb? (still less than my gmail tab...)
> Perhaps you use Visual Assist or some other bulky plugins? I 
> only have
> Visual-D installed.


That's quite surprising, Visual Studio for me is always in the 
~300MB or so range, often more. Right now using MonoDevelop on 
Linux with Mono-D is using ~500MB. That being said, I'm perfectly 
okay with IDEs using lots of memory. RAM is cheap, if the IDE can 
make itself even slightly better by using an extra 2GB when I 
have spare, I'd be happy to let it. I have 16GB in my laptop and 
12GB in my desktop and nothing ever comes even remotely close to 
causing me to run out of memory. Things using CPU usage in the 
background however is quite frustrating. Somehow my most CPU 
intensive process on this laptop is my touchpad driver 
(touchegg), which likely kills battery life.