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If the issue of too many DOM elements is memory use, wouldn't it be better to just limit the memory use of a page? Apologies if this is a really ignorant quest

by rifung 8y ago

If the issue of too many DOM elements is memory use, wouldn't it be better to just limit the memory use of a page? Apologies if this is a really ignorant question as I know very little about browsers/front end development.

TomMarius 8y ago
There are legit uses of RAM, fully fledged web apps are ordinary now
developit 8y ago
It's more than memory use - it causes tree traversals to take longer, which means unbounded style recalculations (common) and side-effecting DOM changes take longer.