Microsoft's Skydrive sends two million NULL characters

Re:Microsoft's Skydrive sends two million NULL characters by Freaky on Monday November 12, 2012 @11:55AM (#4773595)

Context switching isn't that big a deal, it's actually pretty good for responsiveness since everything isn't being serialised through a single thread. Compare/contrast animgifs on a busy Opera vs a busy Chrome - Opera will regularly freeze momentarily, presumably because of stop-the-world GC.

The bigger problem is having that many tabs open without burning through enormous amounts of memory. Chrome's at least 10x less memory-efficient than Opera in this regard, which isn't great when my Opera sessions regularly run to well over 4GB :)

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Re:Microsoft's Skydrive sends two million NULL characters by Tomis02 on Monday November 12, 2012 @12:13PM (#4773673)

You are right, your scenario is much more visible nowadays. It's just that I have in mind my old single core CPU and how Chrome managed to grind my system to a halt with only a dozen tabs.

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Re:Microsoft's Skydrive sends two million NULL characters by Evbn on Monday November 12, 2012 @11:35PM (#4776428)

Chrome could do that with one process as well as with 100.

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