[saghm]

96? It sounds more like 64 to me, which is probably above average but not exactly crazy. I've had 64 GB in my personal desktop for years, and most laptops I've used in the past 5 years or so for work have had 32 GB. If it takes up 1/4700 of memory, I don't think it changes things much. Plus, argument parsing tends to be done right at the beginning of the program and completely unused again by the time anything else happens, so even if the parsing itself is inefficient, it seems like maybe the least worrisome place I could imagine to optimize for developer efficiency over performance.