32 MiB Working Sets on a 64 GiB machine
Memory is a relatively scarce resource on many consumer computers, so a feature to limit how much memory a process uses seems like a good idea, and Microsoft did indeed implement such a feature. However:
They didn’t document this (!)
Their implementation doesn’t actually save memory
The implementation can have a prohibitively high CPU cost
This feature works by limiting the working set of a process – the amount of memory mapped into the address-space of the process – to 32 MiB. Before reading an...
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