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It's a rendering engine and JS engine per process, I guess. Those tend to consume memory (as overhead apart from the actual stuff needed for the page), for exam
by ygra 14y ago
It's a rendering engine and JS engine per process, I guess. Those tend to consume memory (as overhead apart from the actual stuff needed for the page), for example.
- javert 14y agoI'm surprised that's enough to make a meaningful difference.
- ygra 14y agoKeep in mind that IE8 goes back to the Vista days. That was when there were still computers with just 512 MiB of memory (which might be fine with Windows 8 but Vista would chomp on it hungrily). At least this could be a reason.