memory consumption

[Roger Pack]

So...does anyone find it odd that running a rails console uses 80MB of
memory? Why so much? I profile it and it says 'yep you have 300000
strings' but...I'm not doing anything too weird--what gives? Dike can't
even find where all the strings are being created (though a good chunk
of them are created in activesupport/dependencies/new_constants_in
(discovered using a nice commercial tool softwareverify.com which trial
version expires soon).
Any thoughts?
Thanks.