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Is it really an issue? I think I start my editor only when I do the update and I have to reset my mac.

• shawnz 9y ago
  I am on a fairly RAM constrained workstation (4GB) so I have no choice but to close it when I'm not using it. Otherwise I'll spend just as long swapping as I would opening a new instance.
  • macinjosh 9y ago
    I don't think a machine with just 4GB of RAM can be considered a 'workstation'.
    • shawnz 9y ago
      Ouch! It's not much, but it's mine.
      • orf 9y ago
        Are you running Windows? Could put *nix on it, reduce the amount of crap running in the background and pick a low-memory shell?
        • shawnz 9y ago
          The biggest consumer of RAM for me is chrome, not windows, and it is basically essential to my development process to have it open all the time. So I worry an OS change would not produce an appreciable enough performance improvement to justify changing my whole workflow over.
          • arbie 9y ago
            Is Chromium on Linux a suitable alternative for your development workflow?
    • analogmemory 9y ago
      Rude