No matter how many other programs I am running, when I open task manager it always seems like Chrome is at 1000 or 2000+ MB of memory usage, whereas everything else barely hits 500MB
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Memory can be used to create the illusions of speed that people are most happy with.
If you get everything into memory before you do the layouts, the layouts look like they happen all at once. In old web browsers you would see the page building itself as each fragment arrived.
So much more so for going back to a previously loaded pages or other tabs.
Then there are piles of “maybe assets”. You know, maybe the user’s going to open this subpanel, maybe the user is going to click that control, and so forth. Forth. There are options you might pick, pains you might open, and scripts you might run.
Then there’s all the pains, scripts and panels you’ve previously opened that you might go back to.
Many programs are designed to just keep on filling memory until they hit some sort of limit. The average program running on a Windows box thinks It has access to way more memory than you actually have on your computer. The memory map is bigger than the memory. The operating systems job is to swap things in and out of memory to make good on the promises of the memory map. And even then, the memory map is probably bigger than the accommodation of real memory and virtual memory stored out to disk.
If you could shovel that many words and pictures through your word processor. It would use up just as much memory as a modern browser.
Then there are caches of cookies and databases of cashed images and then there’s the overhead of organizing all that stuff.
Be will informed user will find the selections and settings that let them control how voracious the web browser will be, knowing full well that you will be cutting away some of that illusion of speed. Speed.
There’s also no award for free memory. While engaging in processing. You don’t win a prize at half beer RAM goes unused. So if the thing you’re doing is just mucking around on the net then why be frugal?
The only time you really care about the memory use by your browser is when you’re popping up web pages while you’re gaming or something. If you’re playing online role-playing game and you’re also trying to pursue the web guide and sure, those two programs are bump into each other because they both want all the memory .
But in practical terms, no matter how little or how much memory you have, you’ll fill it eventually and get back to why is this so damn slow.
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