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Re:Microsoft's Skydrive sends two million NULL characters by ygra on Monday November 12, 2012 @10:40AM (#4773221)
It's a rendering engine and JS engine per process, I guess. Those tend to consume memory (as overhead apart from the actual stuff needed for the page), for example.
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Re:Microsoft's Skydrive sends two million NULL characters by javert on Monday November 12, 2012 @11:05AM (#4773337)
I'm surprised that's enough to make a meaningful difference.
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Re:Microsoft's Skydrive sends two million NULL characters by ygra on Monday November 12, 2012 @11:23AM (#4773417)
Keep in mind that IE8 goes back to the Vista days. That was when there were still computers with just 512 MiB of memory (which might be fine with Windows 8 but Vista would chomp on it hungrily). At least this could be a reason.
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