Performance and memory consumption worries

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Julia memory overhead

I have received some queries from coworkers about Julia’s memory overhead. Members of our HPC team have expressed concern that Julia seems to eat about 160-200MB of RAM per Julia session (our current deployment model is to run many single-thread jobs on AWS nodes with relatively small RAM, and additional RAM is an expensive resource on AWS. The speed and RAM usage of my algorithm itself seems quite reasonable, but fitting 200MB more data in could be valuable to us). So I have a couple of questi…