4 GB of memory can be had for $50.
When I use a computer I usually use: browser + music, OR browser + emacs.
I want my browser to be fast and responsive, and the memory isn't being used for anything else.
When I use a computer I usually use: browser + music, OR browser + emacs.
I want my browser to be fast and responsive, and the memory isn't being used for anything else.
No, it's the internal representation of the markup, and the program state of all of the javascript programs a page might incorporate, that takes up a lot of memory.
Well, judging by the graphs in the linked article this is clearly something that every browser vendor experiences. I imagine that the trade off in speedy page rendering is having a lot of memory intensive data structures.
It's prolly more complicated than we give them credit for.
I've never liked the griping about memory use - if you're not swapping out to disk then you're perfectly fine. I'm much more concerned with having firefox occupying a whole core if I leave it unattended with too many js intensive tabs open.