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Re:Show HN: Save Memory in Google Chrome by SkyMarshal on Monday March 11, 2013 @01:26PM (#5358214)
First world perspective. Any globally-oriented FOSS app like Chromium or Firefox should work to reduce hardware requirements as much as possible to provide best possible performance on devices like Raspberry Pie and MIT's $100 laptop [1].

And even in the first world there are a lot of miserly corporations that penny pinch on things like RAM.

If software that wants to target either of those markets can be made more hardware efficient, it should be.

[1] http://one.laptop.org/

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Re:Show HN: Save Memory in Google Chrome by tomkarlo on Monday March 11, 2013 @02:09PM (#5358561)
It's hard to both target the leading edge of the market and also serve minimal-spec hardware targets. Seems like it would make more sense to have a different branch for those targets, being done by someone with a strong business interest in making it work.
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