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by atiedebee 467 days ago
> The bad news is that it stores that decompressed data in your RAM, increasing the memory used by the game. Without UPX, my game uses ~53MB of RAM. With UPX, it's up to ~74MB.

The decompressed data will be in RAM either way. I assume it's the _compressed_ data that remains in RAM (the RAM usage seems to support this as well)