This is an implementation problem with automerge. I wrote a blog post last year about CRDT performance. I re-ran the benchmarks a couple months ago. Automerge has improved a lot since then, but a simple benchmark test (automerge-perf[1]) still takes 200MB of RAM using automerge-rs. Yjs and Diamond types can run the same benchmark in 4mb / 2mb of ram respectively.
I've had a chat with some of the automerge people about it. They're working on it, and I've shared the techniques I'm using in diamond types (and all the code). Its just an implementation bottleneck.
I've had a chat with some of the automerge people about it. They're working on it, and I've shared the techniques I'm using in diamond types (and all the code). Its just an implementation bottleneck.
[1] https://github.com/automerge/automerge-perf/