• Goodie@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    Tbh, back in 08 Chrome was a lean mean browsing machine, and Firefox was bloatware.

    In the intervening 15 years firefox has gotten gooood and chrome has gotten bloated

    • AGTMADCAT@infosec.pubEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I tried using Firefox for a mapping tool a few months ago and it cheerfully gobbled up 34GB of RAM before I killed it. Neither Chrome nor Edge suffered the same memory leak, so I think there’s still some work to be done!

  • IHeartBadCode@kbin.social
    2·
    1 year ago
        // gc_eat_shit_and_die.js  
    function brrrr(){
        const urmemory = [];
        return function veryuseful(anum){
            urmemory.push(anum);
        }
    }
    const iwanttopushyouaround = brrrr();
    for (let fun=0; fun<1000000000;fun++){
        iwanttopushyouaround(fun);  //Well, I will, well, I will
    }