<div dir="ltr">On 17 September 2013 12:04, Meta <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jared771@gmail.com" target="_blank">jared771@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">On Tuesday, 17 September 2013 at 01:18:39 UTC, Manu wrote:<br>
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What kind of quantity are we talking? My VisualStudio2010 is humming away<br>
right now at 80mb with a large project open (less than i expected).<br>
It's a text editor... what does it do?<br>
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How in the world are you getting that small of a memory footprint? My CS2010 is currently using 203k with a fairly bare-bones project. Hell, it gobbles up 100k just idling with nothing open.<br>
</blockquote></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">I presume you mean megabytes?</div><div class="gmail_extra">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.</div>
<div class="gmail_extra">For reference, that's considerably less than the chrome process that hosts gmail (200mb!). About the same as the steam client which I haven't even opened since I turned on my PC, and less than double that of dropbox (70mb!).</div>
<div class="gmail_extra">I just booted eclipse, doing absolutely nothing, no projects open on the start screen. over 410mb...</div><div class="gmail_extra">I don't know why modern software uses so much memory. But it seems VisualStudio at ~100mb is pretty bloody good comparatively!</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Dunno why you're seeing 200mb? (still less than my gmail tab...)</div><div class="gmail_extra">Perhaps you use Visual Assist or some other bulky plugins? I only have Visual-D installed.</div>
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