Moar memory. Moar!
Just installed the second beta of Visual Studio 2010 and got my 3D framework up and running in it. Overall it feels like a good upgrade from 2008. Intellisense for C++ actually works for a change. C++0x is partially there. Red squiggly underlines highlight just how bad a typist you are. It's all jolly lovely, except one thing - the memory usage. Oh, the memory usage.
Due to hardware troubles I'm currently stuck on a laptop with 2GB of memory and while not exactly excessive these days, 2GB should certainly be enough for most desktop uses. Especially for something that is essentially a glorified text-editor.
Yeah, from a standstill to just opening my framework solution VS2010 gobbles up over 400MB of memory. During compilation that increases to well over 700MB. Add to that the gig or so that Windows (7 in this case) already uses just sitting there, and you're dangerously close to swapping to disk on my 2GB machine. Start a Firefox session, Photoshop or, god forbid, run a Virtual Machine, and you're there:
It really is excruciatingly slow if you have anything else running on the computer (like, you know, the application you're developing). Swapping is unavoidable. The slow disk in my laptop obviously doesn't help when that happens, but when VS2008 can do the same job using 120MB and 300MB respectively, I'm left scratching my head as to what is going on over in Redmond.
It's like they're not even trying.
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