> Sure, manipulating an 8 megapixel photo takes a lot of RAM. But what about 
> while you're *not* manipulating an 8 megapixel photo? Why should it 
> require any more RAM then? (Not to mention CPU time...)

Because it keeps 100 levels of undo data, has code for doing 400 different 
brush types and colour gradients, functions for adjusting colour balance and 
histogram equalisation, red-eye removal, perspective correction, much higher 
resolution and colour depth icons for all the tool-bars, critical parts of 
the code have been optimised for speed (at the expense of RAM usage) now 
that everyone has more RAM, it has loaded lots of stuff to RAM that it 
thinks you *might* use so that it appears to run quicker, etc.

Personally, I like having all that stuff at the expense of it using 1% of my 
RAM instead of 0.1%.

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