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by leppr 2735 days ago
My 1st point is the same everyone criticizing performance bloat is trying to make: running our software in such inefficient way, even though we can, is not good. We could accomplish way more for the users if the underlying stack didn't by default eat so much of our performance budget.

The 2nd point is simply that unless you're only targeting upper class and tech savvy users, 16 free Gb of RAM will not be your baseline.