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by spicymaki 40 days ago
Memory optimization is incredibly low hanging fruit. We have been so spoiled with the abundance of memory.

There is just so much code out there that does not manage object life cycles well (over allocation, leaks, etc.), encodes data in text rather than binary representation.

The move to static binaries over dynamic libraries, applications that run web engines underneath rather than cleaner UIs.

I hope the memory shortage will encourage us to focus on efficiency again.