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Honestly, I hate the term "bloat". Most of the times when I've seen bloat blamed, the real cause has been a bad algorithm somewhere. Just as was the case with C
by jsight 8y ago
Honestly, I hate the term "bloat". Most of the times when I've seen bloat blamed, the real cause has been a bad algorithm somewhere. Just as was the case with Chrome, its often the case that using more RAM (and maybe more "bloat") can make things faster.
- laumars 8y agoYeah, i agree. And very succinctly put too.
- gregmac 8y agoAfter fixing bad algorithms, dealing with performance and resource utilization basically comes down to a series of trade-offs. In most cases: Less RAM = More CPU or more disk space (and much slower) Less CPU = more disk or RAM Less disk = more network, RAM and/or CPU
- darkarmani 8y ago> a bad algorithm somewhere Along the lines of a custom memory manager, that never releases memory back to the OS. If you open tons of tabs, closing them wouldn't release the memory back. Which is a decent guess - it used the memory once, it will probably need it again.