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		adhamsalama 68 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Zed is now available on Windows Electron compiles NodeJS with v8's pointer compression which leads to an up to 50% decrease in memory usage, and might speed it up too.

davidatbu 68 days ago [–]

Are you saying that VSCode runs tsserver in its own NodeJS process? Or are you saying that VSCode uses the NodeJS it ships to run tsserver in a different process?

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