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Sublime with no windows open: 410mb of memory

CotEditor with no windows open: 80mb of memory

BBEdit with no windows open: 85mb of memory

In the Activity Monitor.

I guess it varies... I have ~50 files open in sublime right now, mostly small, but some fairly large (e.g. one is 600K), and I'm seeing 279MB in activity monitor. It was less, but I cycled through all my open files just to keep it honest.

Of course, there are a million different workflows people use, not to mention different plug-ins and language packages, etc., so it may just not work for you.

But I don't think there's really an inherent problem.

That's fascinating. I wonder what's different between your situation and mine. You're on an M-series Mac? Current MacOS?

Yes, it’s an M1 (the lower-end Studio one), and Monterey.

oops, I mean Sonoma -- whatever the very latest is. Sorry, I can't keep these names straight. I was installing betas on this machine, so I had the final release somewhat earlier than the official release since the beta RC2 and final release were the same.

So? 410M is reported, it does not mean it's actually used.

I'm not sure if you are familiar with how virtual memory works but if you are, then I don't understand what's your point.

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