David Kean on Visual Studio 2026 Requiring 64gb of RAM

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The discussion revolves around David Kean's comment on Visual Studio 2026 requiring 64GB of RAM, with commenters expressing concerns and skepticism about the efficiency of VS's memory usage.

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hulitu

4 months ago

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> All hardware, regardless of memory or CPU count, received the same GC settings in a lowest common denominator fashion, so you could have 64 GB RAM and we wouldn't use it efficiently.

Is "David Kean" aware that his beloved VS has to share the system with, at least, svchost.exe ? /s

davkean

4 months ago

Yes, he and our experimental system is well aware that Visual Studio shares the system. :)

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