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Re:Brave overhauled its Rust adblock engine with FlatBuffers... by nottorp on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @04:52AM (#46510496)
RAM is cheap mmmkay?

Or at least it used to be when they designed the thing…

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Re:Brave overhauled its Rust adblock engine with FlatBuffers... by RealityVoid on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @05:18AM (#46510653)
Is it a RAM problem though? My understanding is that each process loads the shared library in its own memory space, so it's only a ROM/HDD space problem.
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Re:Brave overhauled its Rust adblock engine with FlatBuffers... by nottorp on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @05:19AM (#46510660)
If you stop using shared libraries each application will have its own copy in ram…
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Re:Brave overhauled its Rust adblock engine with FlatBuffers... by goodpoint on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @08:55AM (#46512271)
The problem is vulnerable dependencies and having to update hundreds of binaries when a vuln is fixed.
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