[Sukera]

Yes, the size in memory is definitely an issue. Do keep in mind that right now, the julia executable more or less just has to load all of LLVM as a shared object into memory, since we might compile stuff at any time. That alone adds ~84M of overhead on my machine for the current libLLVM14 shared object. There's probably some other stuff I haven't thought of OTOH. The (non-minified) runtime itself is 244K at the moment, which can probably be slimmed down further. There are currently efforts underway to statically compile more stuff and hopefully introduce a more traditional static linking approach, but it takes time & lots of effort.

Still, a large chunk of the memory being spent is not in the code that's produced or in the allocations happening in the code, but libraries that are loaded but not required. It's one of the downsides of focusing on interactivity first. The benchmarks in benchmarksgame don't reflect that, which I guess is up to interpretation/what's required - if the total amount of memory is a concern it's an important figure, if you only care about your core algorithm not having inherent allocation/memory problems, you probably won't care about the compiler chain as much.