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> Desktop applications tend to be either not performance limited or limited by something other than the CPU. The browser is a desktop application and, once th
by pcwalton 10y ago
> Desktop applications tend to be either not performance limited or limited by something other than the CPU.
The browser is a desktop application and, once the page is loaded off the network, is certainly CPU bound.
- mrmondo 10y agoHmm... I still find browsers more memory blind than anything, any machine with less than 16GB of RAM I find really struggles with JavaScript heavy sites, god damn JavaScript.
- pcwalton 10y agoYour JS heaps are not approaching 16GB unless you have thousands of tabs loaded. You can verify this in about:memory.
- tossedaway334 10y ago_something_ about the browser (either chrome or firefox, fresh profile, no extensions) is eating ungodly amounts of ram however, and it tends to be at its worst with JS heavy sites. EDIT: no addons either
- Senji 10y agoMaybe you have some random addons(not extensions) installed?
- Retric 10y agoThat would be more relevant id the choice was 15GB vs 16GB. However it's normally 8 vs 16 and that 8 is used by many processes. So, it can easily be comparing 0.5 of free memory vs 8.5 GB of free memory.
- duderific 10y agoIt's probably a combination of all the caching browsers do to improve observed performance and sloppy memory management in the browser software, not javascript.