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This is a pretty solid hypothesis, but wouldn't the same be true of the exploited cached images? They are essentially the same thing: stale resources that won't
by rbranson 15y ago
This is a pretty solid hypothesis, but wouldn't the same be true of the exploited cached images? They are essentially the same thing: stale resources that won't be used again, and those regions need to be free'd up.
- nitrogen 15y agoI suspect there are two major causes for the differences: (1) the faster allocation rate in the browser prevents the system from keeping OS/GUI-critical pages in RAM, and (2) the browser is constantly checking the cache for matching images, so the pages used by the cache are being kept in RAM and/or repeatedly loaded and unloaded.