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staticassertiontoday at 1:16 PM2 repliesview on HN

I had a script in another language. It was node, took up >200MB of RAM that I wanted back. "claude, rewrite this in rust". 192MB of memory returned to me.


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zozbot234today at 3:03 PM

Solving the big RAM shortage one prompt at a time.

ricardobeattoday at 4:26 PM

This is sad to see. Node was originally one of the memory efficient options – it’s roots are solving the c10k problem. Mind sharing what libraries/frameworks you were using?