Anecdotally, this comment annoyed me so much that I decided to reboot my machine (that I typed this comment on) and see what the memory situation looked like. A

Anecdotally, this comment annoyed me so much that I decided to reboot my machine (that I typed this comment on) and see what the memory situation looked like. As I correctly remembered, it still starts up in under three seconds & using under 40MB, after init launches my web server, networking & other various tools for convenience.