A lot of people (guilty myself) tend to judge by memory usage because it's the only thing easily visible ingame. A lot of minimalistic UIs throw functionality overboard and look at memory only, not taking CPU into account. I used to do that but then I started to think a little and now I just balance a good functionality to performance ratio.
Static memory does almost nothing for addons, apart from affecting load times (though this is mostly caused by CPU usage during load as well).
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