Re:Finding and Fixing Ghostty's Largest Memory Leak
by surajrmal on Sunday January 11, 2026 @04:31AM
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Why do you think trippling the memory usage of a program is an acceptable tradeoff? It's not just GC pauses that are problematic with gc languages. Some software wants to run on systems with less than 4GiB of RAM.
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Re:Finding and Fixing Ghostty's Largest Memory Leak
by llmslave3 on Sunday January 11, 2026 @04:38AM
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This response breaks HN rules fyi.
> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.
Anyways, I find your response kind of ironic since this bug caused literal tens of gigabytes of extraneous memory usage. Instead of sacrificing a few kb of memory to prevent that.