From what I understand, one could cache 100 web pages (obviously, 2mb is average, but there are much smaller and much larger than that) in about 200mb. 1GB could cache literally 500 web pages.
How come web browsers use so much ram then?
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Same reason a tiny program can consume tons of RAM. Telling a computer *what to do* doesn’t take as much resources as actually doing those things.
Compare the size of your shopping list (if you still use those), and the size of the bags you load in your car after you’re done shopping.
Popular web pages these days are basically just full programs running inside a browser. If this web page plays a video, your browser now needs to load a bunch of media codecs. If the web page shows 3D graphics, the browser now needs to load a lot of 3D graphics libraries
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