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[-] Jajcus@kbin.social 13 points 1 year ago

Browser and website developers see it other way: we can care about optimizations even less now.

[-] prole@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

Maybe one day people will learn that tabs were never designed to perpetually stay open, 50 at a time, and be used as some makeshift bookmarks system.

[-] krolden@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago
[-] rastilin@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Oh yes. There was a proposed patch for Google Chrome a while ago that attempted to block some kind of hypothetical memory scanning attack with the only downside that it increased memory usage by 25% by padding out the process with a massive amount of fake instructions. I still get mad thinking about it. The memory scanning is entirely hypothetical, but the memory usage is very real.

this post was submitted on 19 Jul 2023
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