Why Zellij use way more memory than tmux?

[junyan-zhang]

in my case, after open a empty session, Zellij using 80M, tmux using 6M

I am not care about memory usage, but are they have different design?

[Zykino]

Scrollbuffers, WASM, reserved vs actual RAM usage, not being 1.0 -> Still in feature adding phase, not yet performance enhancing except if it is really needed for something (or community provided... respecting code of contribution that ask for no refactoring and minimal asking for help, among other things)

[The-Briel-Deal]

Tmux is also fundamentally more minimal by design. And its much easier to write code thats a bit more memory hungry while still working well due to smart pointers and other memory safety features in rust. (which isn't a bad thing, it just means rust is a bit more conservative with when memory is freed)

Also, tmux was originally made over a decade ago when computers weren't as performant, and memory was less plentiful.

And finally, theres a lot of dependencies in zellij compared to tmux, (the debug binary is over a gig on my machine).