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Re:Zed is now available on Windows by nottorp on Thursday October 16, 2025 @07:44AM (#45604198)
> Storage is cheap

I'll be very grateful if you stopped using all my RAM for two buttons and a scrollbar thank you.

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Re:Zed is now available on Windows by trenchpilgrim on Thursday October 16, 2025 @10:11AM (#45605589)
OSes don't load the full executable into physical RAM, only the pages in the working set. Most of the Zed executable's size is tree-sitter code for all the supported languages, and only needs to page in if those languages are being used in a project.
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Re:Zed is now available on Windows by nottorp on Friday October 17, 2025 @04:54AM (#45614579)
Maybe for this particular case but the comment shows a certain mindset...
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