Subj : Re: Learned something new
To   : Mike Powell
From : Ky Moffet
Date : Tue Jul 23 2024 12:17:00

MIKE POWELL wrote:
>> Browsers are the biggest hogs, I've seen Chrome suck up 40GB (yes,
>> gigabytes) of RAM! Supermium, despite being based on the same code, is
>> not as greedy, but still uses about 700mb when it's just admiring its
>> navel, plus about 2GB per page open.
> 
> I am convinced that the more memory a machine has available, the more the
> browser will suck up.  Either they, the pages they are rendering, or both,
> are some of the least efficient coding that has ever been produced.

Yep, they do that. There hasn't been an efficient browser since Netscape 
3 (which rendered pages about 10x faster than anything today).

Using available RAM isn't bad, that's what it's for, but assuming it's 
yours to waste is just crappy coding.
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