Question

I just noticed the memory usage of a simple win32 C based GUI application with single main window taking around 3 MB memory ( via Task Manager )

I used Dev-c++ and Mingw as compiler , and generated windows application via project wizard.

why that so ? is there any way to reduce it ?

Answer 1

Found one API which can control the application memory set ,

This code can show a better result in Task manager.

SetProcessWorkingSetSize(GetCurrentProcess(), (SIZE_T) -1, (SIZE_T) -1);