diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 8b5220b8..e8b6d57e 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -1191,6 +1191,16 @@ dependencies = [
  "windows-targets 0.52.6",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "libmimalloc-sys"
+version = "0.1.39"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "23aa6811d3bd4deb8a84dde645f943476d13b248d818edcf8ce0b2f37f036b44"
+dependencies = [
+ "cc",
+ "libc",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "libredox"
 version = "0.1.3"
@@ -1261,6 +1271,15 @@ dependencies = [
  "libc",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "mimalloc"
+version = "0.1.43"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "68914350ae34959d83f732418d51e2427a794055d0b9529f48259ac07af65633"
+dependencies = [
+ "libmimalloc-sys",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "minimal-lexical"
 version = "0.2.1"
@@ -2307,6 +2326,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "log",
  "log-panics",
  "memmap2",
+ "mimalloc",
  "native-dialog",
  "normpath",
  "ntest",
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index d91d4f58..479d4744 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -79,6 +79,7 @@ webview2-com = "0.33"
 windows = "0.58"
 cbindgen = "0.27"
 log-panics = "2.1.0"
+mimalloc = { version = "0.1", features = ["secure"] }
 
 # default to small, optimized workspace release binaries
 [profile.release]
diff --git a/src/bins/Cargo.toml b/src/bins/Cargo.toml
index 5734bcfe..bc40956a 100644
--- a/src/bins/Cargo.toml
+++ b/src/bins/Cargo.toml
@@ -105,6 +105,7 @@ webview2-com = "0.33"
 libloading.workspace = true
 strsim.workspace = true
 same-file.workspace = true
+mimalloc.workspace = true
 # filelocksmith.workspace = true
 
 [dev-dependencies]
diff --git a/src/bins/src/setup.rs b/src/bins/src/setup.rs
index 685eccaf..4c57b8e1 100644
--- a/src/bins/src/setup.rs
+++ b/src/bins/src/setup.rs
@@ -1,6 +1,11 @@
 #![cfg_attr(not(debug_assertions), windows_subsystem = "windows")]
 #![allow(dead_code)]
 
+// https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/92173
+use mimalloc::MiMalloc;
+#[global_allocator]
+static GLOBAL: MiMalloc = MiMalloc;
+
 #[macro_use]
 extern crate log;
 
diff --git a/src/bins/src/update.rs b/src/bins/src/update.rs
index 5e531b3a..e12bd66a 100644
--- a/src/bins/src/update.rs
+++ b/src/bins/src/update.rs
@@ -1,6 +1,11 @@
 #![cfg_attr(not(debug_assertions), windows_subsystem = "windows")]
 #![allow(dead_code)]
 
+// https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/92173
+use mimalloc::MiMalloc;
+#[global_allocator]
+static GLOBAL: MiMalloc = MiMalloc;
+
 #[macro_use]
 extern crate log;