I wish all web developers had laptops with only 512MB of RAM. Trying to tweet with both a windows VM, VScode and slack running at the same time is nigh impossible.
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Replying to @Lady_Ada_King
If...only they shared a single copy of all the Chromium infrastructure...like, maybe some futuristic way run "web apps" in their own windows? IDK, call me crazy.
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Replying to @slightlylate @Lady_Ada_King
And yet: running the full web versions of Twitter and Gmail in side-by-side Chrome browser tabs regularly chews up 512MB of RAM without opening anything for actually getting work done. (That's Twitter after staying open for a few hours, and Gmail just launched a moment ago.)pic.twitter.com/RcCppvzmDk
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Replying to @AmeliasBrain @Lady_Ada_King
Memory use is hugely complex. Good programs should trade space for speed to the extent that the space is free. I'm not claiming Chrome is a great memory footprint citizen, but we do try to make things fast when it's possible.
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Replying to @slightlylate
Oh, sure, it's not an easy problem to solve. But… you seemed to imply that web apps were some magic solution. That said, I'm hopeful that a switch to PWA architecture will make it easier to trim the amount of code & content that accumulates in memory with the SPA architecture.
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Well, that's the thing...Slack and VSCode *are* webish content, they just don't share the Browser Process, GPU Process, etc. etc.
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