"Hello World" application takes 13MB of RAM?

[EFileTahi-A]

It seems 12 to 14MB of ram are always consumed by default, by any application created with VS.

 

I built a micro-desktop-IP-display application that is consuming 13MB of RAM. What the... 13MB to display an IP address? Is there a way to drop it at least to 1MB (while I think 1MB is still absurd for displaying a phrase, but better the 14!)?

[snarfblam]

There is a price to pay for apps using DotNet's comprehensive runtime environment and library. There are those who would argue that 13 megs is perfectly acceptable for a small app because "memory is cheap". I think it would be nicer to not use the memory when you don't need it.

 

If you want a tiny memory footprint, C++ or even VB6 could be the way to go.

 

As an interesting note, I was just looking at a discussion on SuperUser about full-featured media players with 5-10 meg footprints.

 

Edit: I just created a hello world app, removing all unnecessary references, and got a 7-meg mem usage at start with a release build.

[EFileTahi-A]

Yeah. I removed all the unnecessary references, I managed to reduce the RAM usage to 3 - 4MB.

 

Thanks for the post m8.