Quote from the article: "The bytecode generated by SQLite is usually smaller than the corresponding AST coming out of the parser. During initial processing of

Quote from the article: "The bytecode generated by SQLite is usually smaller than the corresponding AST coming out of the parser. During initial processing of SQL text (during the call to sqlite3_prepare() and similar) both the AST and the bytecode exist in memory at the same time and so more memory is used then. But that is a transient state. The AST is quickly discarded and its memory recycled [...]"