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Re:We Need Chrome No More by jsight on Wednesday February 27, 2019 @12:53PM (#19265280)
Honestly, I hate the term "bloat". Most of the times when I've seen bloat blamed, the real cause has been a bad algorithm somewhere. Just as was the case with Chrome, its often the case that using more RAM (and maybe more "bloat") can make things faster.
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Re:We Need Chrome No More by gregmac on Wednesday February 27, 2019 @05:50PM (#19267625)
After fixing bad algorithms, dealing with performance and resource utilization basically comes down to a series of trade-offs. In most cases:

Less RAM = More CPU or more disk space (and much slower)

Less CPU = more disk or RAM

Less disk = more network, RAM and/or CPU

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Re:We Need Chrome No More by darkarmani on Thursday February 28, 2019 @05:36PM (#19276024)
> a bad algorithm somewhere

Along the lines of a custom memory manager, that never releases memory back to the OS. If you open tons of tabs, closing them wouldn't release the memory back. Which is a decent guess - it used the memory once, it will probably need it again.

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Re:We Need Chrome No More by laumars on Wednesday February 27, 2019 @02:35PM (#19266221)
Yeah, i agree. And very succinctly put too.
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