[Github-comments] [geany/geany] Fully automated cross-compiled Windows installer with GTK3 and x86_64 (#2592)

[tivrfoa]

> > Geany Windows download == 16Mbytes, Plugins Windows download == 36Mbytes, total 52Mb compared to say Vscode Windows download 62Mbytes, Eclipse hundreds of Mbytes, etc etc as you say I doubt its an issue :)
> 
> Maybe most people that use Geany do it because it's a lightweight editor, so maybe should compare size with other lightweight editors.
> 
> Notepad++.exe is 3.6MB
> 
> And the tendency is to have more plugins, so what now would be 52MB can be much bigger later.

Although what is really important is RAM usage, so if unused plugins don't increase RAM, then download size is a not a big problem (only if it gets too big).

### Test for Windows 10 64bits

Download size:
Sublime Text Build 3211 x64 Setup.exe  | geany-1.36_setup.exe
-------------------------------------------|-------------------------
10.675KB | 15.743KB

RAM usage for the same 6 open files:
Sublime Text Build 3211 x64 Setup.exe  | geany-1.36_setup.exe
-------------------------------------------|-------------------------
21.692K | 11.312K

I was going to download Atom to test too, but it's just too big: 172MB

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