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by dapids 1376 days ago
You think moving to rust will reduce the memory footprint?? Interesting viewpoint...
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It is well accepted that GC-based runtimes greatly increase memory footprint. A tracing GC might need upto several times the memory to match manual memory management. Nothing interesting about the "viewpoint".

https://people.cs.umass.edu/~emery/pubs/gcvsmalloc.pdf

https://blog.metaobject.com/2020/11/m1-memory-and-performanc...

I think you missed the sarcasm in my post. I was not at all serious and completely subscribe to everything you just mentioned