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by kurouna 117 days ago
I just ran some simple measurements on my machine to see how it compares. These are just informal benchmarks, but I thought the results might be interesting:

Environment:

Windows 11 Pro 25H2

Intel Core i5-8400 @ 2.8GHz, 16GB RAM

VS Code 1.109.5

elecxzy 0.0.19 (Current dev version)

Memory Usage (Idle):

elecxzy: ~120–125 MB

VS Code: ~430–450 MB (with only the Japanese language pack enabled)

With a 50MB Markdown file open:

elecxzy: ~235 MB

VS Code: ~590 MB

(Note: The 50MB file was programmatically generated for this test.)

While it certainly can't compete with the memory footprint of Notepad or Zed, I've tried to keep it reasonably lightweight for an Electron-based environment by being selective about the features I include.