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[–] tomlinas 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

Not only are there tradeoffs, but there's also a pretty unspoken tradeoff in a user-facing local application like Skype: you want the thing to be as responsive as possible to the user. If the user has 8GB of RAM and 5GB is free, I'm certainly not going to be focusing on keeping my memory footprint as small as possible.

With drive space and memory at all-time lows it's really not worth optimizing for those things anymore except in corner cases where you're crushing I/Ops with a database or running a really unoptimized set of threads or something.