Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM

Post by pelagicAustral » Mon, Aug 10, 2026, 9:24 AM UTC

harshreality wrote: post #459

ndriscoll wrote: post #37

My gaming PC that I built in January 2006 that IIRC I used to simultaneously run Battlefield 2, Trillian, Xfire, Thunderbird, and Winamp with a 1680x1050 monitor had 1 GB of total system RAM.

That's because programmers in 2006 didn't understand programming. They didn't understand how to make their software better . Real programming means writing your own javascript glue, pulling in hundreds of supply-chain-compromised js libraries that you never inspect or profile, and running the whole thing in a browser engine, while making sure to store all state in the cloud. The modern breed of programmers who don't…

Post by davidgerard » Mon, Aug 10, 2026, 9:29 AM UTC

Post by afdbcreid » Mon, Aug 10, 2026, 9:32 AM UTC

ack_complete wrote: post #416

wasmperson wrote: post #299

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> Then C# came and said It's worse than that. The WASM GC standards team was warned in advance that the proposal wouldn't work for .NET, and they moved forward with it anyway: https://github.com/WebAssembly/gc/issues/77 They were also warned about Go (though I'm not sure if they ever actually consulted with golang devs): https://github.com/WebAssembly/gc/issues/36 More links: https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/issues/…

No interior pointers, no embedded arrays, and only a subset of Java definitely seems like an odd target. I would have expected at least two different full languages with acceptable porting overhead to be the MVP.

Post by drooopy » Mon, Aug 10, 2026, 9:34 AM UTC

anthk wrote: post #462

drooopy wrote: post #418

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I was replaying Xenoblade Chronicles on my Switch 2 and the whole time I was thinking about how this ENORMOUS, open world game originated on the Nintendo Wii, a console with only 88 MB of RAM.

With an OS the PC requeriments for that game under Windwos XP would have been like 256MB/384MB.

Post by jijji » Mon, Aug 10, 2026, 9:37 AM UTC

isgb wrote: post #436

That’s pretty amazing, credit to Microsoft. Modern-day weather models are pretty complex and running these kinds of simulations can be pretty demanding.