That's the installed size of the metapackage containing no emacs executable, no elisp files, and no documentation.

On my system the emacs executable is 39M and the entire installed package is 128M. (Additionally, my Doom Emacs folder takes up another 840M.)

Ah so sorry about that. I should have checked.

I'm sorry if this sounds like I'm making fun of your Emacs install (I don't mean to) but how does this happen? Like, what is that when does it load all of that and how much memory/time does it take? I'm genuinely curious.

Nearly everything is loaded on demand. Start up time is less than 1 second.

On my Windows machine, the emax64 distribution (many packages) shows up as 491MB.

But on Windows, it seems that every app like this is essentially a Linux/mSys distro that just happens to run the application.

Of course, apps in general are getting that way.

> Additionally, my Doom Emacs folder takes up another 840M.

HOW?

Hd texture packs ?

doom emacs is just an emacs with a particular starting config.

Well, it contains 265 git repositories of packages I'm using.