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		Sohcahtoa82 on March 9, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How I made a 3D game in 2 KB of JavaScript While true, you do have to ask how the hell there could possibly be 100 MB of just code. Consider Windows calculator. In Windows 10, it consumes 15+ MB of RAM. When desktops have 8+ GB of RAM, 15 MB is essentially nothing. And yet, 15 MB is an astronomical amount of RAM considering the functionality Calculator offers. There's really no reason it should be more than a couple hundred kilobytes.

rafaelvasco on March 10, 2020 | [–]

I didn't have a look at the code but the binaries aren't just code. Apart from things like embedded icons and stuff, there can be lots of engine embedded resources inside;

meheleventyone on March 10, 2020 | [–]

You can actually look at the UE4 source and see.

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