Memory Freed and Performance Gains | Generated by AI
My bad — they’re fully closed. The 76 MB is an Apple system process (CodeSigningHelper) that has “Code” in its name, not VSCode.
Memory freed since we started:
| What | Before | After | Saved |
|---|---|---|---|
| VSCode | 23 GB | 0 | 23 GB |
| WeType | 1.6 GB | 0 | 1.6 GB |
| Spotlight (mdworker storm) | 14 GB | 0.5 GB (idle) | 13.5 GB |
| Old VSCode extension versions | 1 GB disk | 0 | 1 GB disk |
| Total virtual demand | ~95 GB | ~57 GB | ~38 GB freed |
Real physical RAM is still at ~15 GB used because macOS keeps compressed pages until something needs the space. But the machine should feel significantly snappier — no swap thrashing, no CPU pinned at 250% by Spotlight.