[sombragris]

No, no and no.

Last year I paid money to upgrade my laptop's RAM from 16 to 32 GB. I didn't pay it so apps could just be more bloated without offering any significant benefit.

Developers should respect and be efficient using hardware resources. There are no excuses for that.

[reenorap]

From CS101 it’s called virtual memory. Things get swapped in and out of memory when they need to. An extra 200MB of memory when Chrome takes gigabytes of memory is a petty thing to complain about.

How much do you want to bet you don’t even use windows media player? It’s fake outrage and if you care that much use VLC.

[Telaneo]

> Things get swapped in and out of memory when they need to.

Great, so now that SSD I've got can wear out more quickly!

> It’s fake outrage and if you care that much use VLC.

Already do. My heart still aches for those who don't know any better.

[roto]

Chrome does it, so it must be good? Is a extra 200mb going to cause the computer to choke? probably not, but that doesn't mean people cant complain about the fact that a lot of modern software has gone this route and it all does add up.

[tentacleuno]

I really only enjoyed Windows Media Player for its visualizations. I found that VLC could get close, but not quite an exact match (most likely due to licensing); there's something quite entrancing about them, and how they'd move in time and change with the music.

It's come and gone, and I'm still not fully sure what Groove Music was; was it something to do with the Zune?

[sgarland]

> VLC

VLC on my Mac uses about 130 MB of RAM (as reported by Activity Monitor) to play a FLAC file, and about 300 MB to play a high-bitrate 1080p MP4 file. The audio file memory consumption frankly seems high, but it’s fine, and apparently 1/3 that of WMP.

More directly, do you not find it odd and embarrassing for a tech giant to be unable to beat a bunch of volunteers? I mean, ffmpeg famously hand-writes a lot of assembly, but it turns out Microsoft could absolutely do that as well if they really wanted to. They could produce performant, native apps; they just choose not to.

[techteach00]

The older I get the more volunteer software projects I donate to. VLC being one of them.

[aleph_minus_one]

> VLC on my Mac uses about 130 MB of RAM (as reported by Activity Monitor) to play a FLAC file, and about 300 MB to play a high-bitrate 1080p MP4 file. The audio file memory consumption frankly seems high, but it’s fine, and apparently 1/3 that of WMP.

Not without reason VLC is considered to be a memory hog.

[fhn]

then all you need is 64k