Is EmDash's dev-mode memory usage expected, or could it be lighter?

[jettwayio]

I've been playing around with EmDash using the Starter template and got curious about the memory usage, so I did a quick side-by-side test on the same Mac.

Using pnpm dev, so the measurement also includes the PNPM wrapper process.

Plain Astro: ~380 MB
EmDash: ~1.5 GB

So it's roughly 4x more.

I understand EmDash is doing quite a bit more than a plain Astro project, with the admin, database, plugins, content APIs, etc. So I wouldn't expect it to be as light. But 1.5 GB did make me wonder whether this is expected in dev mode especially when editing Astro files on a VPS often with only 1GB RAM.

Maybe I'm looking at it the wrong way, but it would be interesting to hear how others are seeing this.