honestly, we don't actually need programmers to manage memory C++ style, we just need them to be *able* to. the real problem is that GC languages implicitly teach people that malloc is a free operation and therefore teach them to waste it absolutely firehose-style
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thinking about it backwards. it's using 875MB _with_ an automatic garbage collector trying to free up whatever it can. now imagine how much memory it would use if there wasn't even a GC?
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that definitely makes up for teaching a generation of developers (who i was going to call coders but the word turned to ashes in my mouth) that malloc is a free operation
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On one level I'm disgusted, but on another, more important level, I just want Chrome tabs to pass the bare minimum requirement of "not crashing"
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Good hardware has spoiled programmers
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To be fair, it's not THEIR memory they're wasting.
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