Advanced memory management and more performance improvements in M89

Posted by feross on Thursday March 11, 2021 @12:34PM
from the blog.chromium.org dept.

https://blog.chromium.org/2021/03/advanced-memory-management-and-more.html

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Re:Advanced memory management and more performance improveme... by SquareWheel on Thursday March 11, 2021 @08:29PM (#26431266)

Those numbers are very impressive. Seems like serious improvements on Windows and Android. I wonder how close the freeze-dried tabs are to the real thing.

For as popular as Chrome is, I'm surprised this post doesn't have any other comments.

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Re:Advanced memory management and more performance improveme... by karlding on Friday March 12, 2021 @08:10PM (#26442964)

According to the README document [0], it's basically a collection of Skia pictures (Chromium's binary format for Skia draw commands) and a protobuf containing the links.

[0] https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/master/comp...

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Re:Advanced memory management and more performance improveme... by SquareWheel on Friday March 12, 2021 @09:14PM (#26443289)

Thanks for the link! Seems interesting.

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Re:Advanced memory management and more performance improveme... by ShinyNewFeature on Saturday March 13, 2021 @08:52PM (#26452051)

Can anybody explain why Chromium tech writer chose to sprinkle "up to" everywhere in the numbers? For example: "we’ve improved browser responsiveness by up to 9%".

This makes the article so confusing to read. Does it mean browser responsiveness improved by 0.1% on average, and in some very edge case, it improved by 9%?

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