How does chrome take 4 gb of ram? That is like 5 full movies.
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There is a rule, called ~~Murphy’s~~ Moore’s law, that says that CPU power doubles every 18 months. A similar one can be said for everything technological, actually. Memory size, disk space, etc.
Unfortunately, there is another rule that can be said. Software gets more and more bloated with suboptimal libraries. Since computers are more powerful, it is less critical to be careful about resources. It’s relatively easy to have an application that works, it is much more difficult and costly to optimize it.
That is why, at the end of the day, the perceived efficiency of many applications has not improved as fast as the underlying hardware.
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