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Re:Brave overhauled its Rust adblock engine with FlatBuffers... by llm_nerd on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @11:18AM (#46514301)
To be fair, they claim the adblock engine saw a 75% reduction in memory usage, and in the images they're showing the main browser process generally (I assume? I don't use Brave), or which the adblock engine is only a part but had a substantial impact on usage.
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Re:Brave overhauled its Rust adblock engine with FlatBuffers... by skaul on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @11:53AM (#46514814)
That is correct.
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Re:Brave overhauled its Rust adblock engine with FlatBuffers... by nialv7 on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @05:36PM (#46519803)
thanks for the clarification. is this 45MB reduction for the whole browser? or is this 45MB per tab?
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