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In an OS with virtual memory and swap, it generally makes sense for apps to allocate as much memory as they can usefully use. Unused RAM is wasted. If memory pr
by foldr 6y ago
In an OS with virtual memory and swap, it generally makes sense for apps to allocate as much memory as they can usefully use. Unused RAM is wasted. If memory pressure increases the OS will just swap out the less recently used tabs.
- thoughtpeddler 6y agoI hear you, but then why do other apps keep their RAM footprints as low as possible? It's a competitive differentiator -- at least among us nerds -- for apps to claim having a "low memory footprint". What prevents apps from allocating to themselves arbitrarily large amounts of RAM?