Michael Tsai on Twitter: "@simX @mmunz That has not been my experience. Over the long term, it uses more and more memory and gets slower and slower."

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Mark Munz ‏@mmunz 4 Nov 2014

iTunes 12 is eating 1+ GB of memory. Seriously!? Isn’t a horrible search UX enough? Now you want to eat memory like you were Safari 7?
Michael Tsai ‏@mjtsai 4 Nov 2014

@mmunz Yeah, it takes about 150 MB when I launch it and then gradually increases to GBs even if I'm not using it.
Simone Manganelli ‏@simX 4 Nov 2014

@mjtsai, @mmunz — Why shouldn't an app aggressively cache stuff until your memory is "full"? Why is using otherwise inactive memory bad?
Michael Tsai ‏@mjtsai 4 Nov 2014

@simX @mmunz Because it's not otherwise inactive. All of my memory is in use right now.
Simone Manganelli ‏@simX 4 Nov 2014

@mjtsai, @mmunz — My hunch is yes, Safari and iTunes are pieces of shit, but I remember many complaining about OS X 10.0's "bad" mem usage
Michael Tsai ‏@mjtsai 4 Nov 2014

@simX @mmunz Important stuff will get paged in, let it swap out the other stuff. Yet, in practice, rebooting always makes things faster.
Simone Manganelli ‏@simX 4 Nov 2014

@mjtsai, @mmunz — Point is you want immediate results, so restarting is a nice placebo. But over long term, aggressive caching saves time.

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