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Headline in an alternate universe: "Google Chrome saves 10% of memory usage by disabling vital security protection"

• hshehehjdjdjd 8y ago
  Alternate headline in our universe: “Chrome increases use of non-constraint resource by 10% to increase security.”
  • m_eiman 8y ago
    In what world is RAM not constrained? It certainly is in mine.
• ploxiln 8y ago
  Headline in alternate universe: "With the powerful computers available in the mid-late 2010s, it is now practical to browse an international web of documents, from your own home!" Seriously - just this increase is 2x the total memory of a computer I used to browse the internet 20 years ago. People, including programmers, seriously misunderstand how amazingly powerful today's computers are, and how amazingly bloated and inefficient today's applications and websites are.
  • alluro2 8y ago
    Couldn't agree more...People were creating universes with 1.44MB on floppies. Instead, Viber desktop app installer, for example, is a 133MB download, ~300MB installed and probably uses double the RAM...
    • mwcampbell 8y ago
      Never mind a universe in 1.44MB; Elite did it in 32KB, albeit with wireframe graphics. [1] The bloat of many current desktop apps, each with their own copy of a large-footprint GUI toolkit or rendering engine, is indeed sad by comparison. I hope this situation will change when Windows 7 and IE 11 are finally history, meaning that desktop app developers can count on the OS to provide a modern web rendering engine on all platforms. [1]: https://www.filfre.net/2013/12/elite/ https://www.filfre.net/2013/12/elite/