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> The memory footprint of the engine is larger than the code size on disk. Users may be wasting gigabytes of RAM on trivial desktop tools. That may be the case
by posix_me_less 6y ago
> The memory footprint of the engine is larger than the code size on disk. Users may be wasting gigabytes of RAM on trivial desktop tools.
That may be the case. Usually it is not a problem, there is mmap and swap and unneeded parts are paged out of physical RAM.
If it becomes a problem, one has to change tools or get more RAM.