Poll: Why is low memory usage important to you?

 

9 replies

  1. you know how it is with CS4 running at full speed + FF + whatever else like iCal, Thunderbird, etc can be like.

  2. I don’t have a lot of memory, but do use a lot of apps. The first choice applies more, but I hope that will soon change.

  3. I have 4 GB Memory but I’m often running 25+ tabs in Firefox, Windows Media Player, Adobe Fireworks and Photoshop, DestroyTwitter and Windows Live Messenger at the same time. The list still doesn’t include the background services :P

  4. Of course apps use more and more memory as programmers compete for users’ approval; your DestroyTwitter seems economical along those lines, as its affect on API. Other apps may be flashier, but none, IMHO, so well thought out for usability.

  5. Answer #2.
    The memory consumption of DT was one of the reasons for me to switch to Tweetie.

  6. Now I’m not a coder but I understand and very much appreciate the idea that software should be as efficient as possible. Imagine if everything we designed and engineered had this mindset as a top priority.

    We wouldn’t need to ever “Go Green.”

  7. When you do graphics for print & web (CS4) you need ever bit of ram you can get.

    Thanks again for keeping this a top priority for DestroyTwitter!!

    Can’t wait to see what you do for Adobe!

  8. I do have a lot of memory but I use twitter a lot. I am happy to use some of that memory to see nice pictures and slick graphics in my twitter application. However, if I only need it running in the background the option to cut that memory usage would be neat.

  9. When you have Virtual Machines, browsers, etc running on a certain amount of RAM, it matters.

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