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by trenchpilgrim 249 days ago
OSes don't load the full executable into physical RAM, only the pages in the working set. Most of the Zed executable's size is tree-sitter code for all the supported languages, and only needs to page in if those languages are being used in a project.
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Maybe for this particular case but the comment shows a certain mindset...