I made a syntax highlighting editor like Edit plus... with CodeMax 2.1. I was conscious about memory and made it quite efficient nullifying all the ->New<- objects created.

However when I finally check its memory consumption it takes 11.5 MB in task manager. Whereas Eclipse IDE with somany features takes around 3.5 MB why is this so? Does VB runtime environment takes lot of memory? I've looked at many VB applications and they take lot of memory. Can somebody explain this?

Thanks
Vijay S