Yacine's RAM trick: custom video editor requests 64 GB upfront to keep everything under 20 ms
yacineMTB · x · 2026-10-13
Developer Yacine shares how he handles RAM usage in his custom video editor: the program immediately requests 64 GB from the OS at startup, so no operation ever takes more than 20 milliseconds — brute-force memory preallocation as a latency strategy.
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