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Your next Windows PC may need at least 16GB of RAM (www.ghacks.net)
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[–] 39 points 2 years ago (1 child)

I love to bash MS, but this feels like an industry-wide trend to /never/ care about optimizing beyond the bar of "typical specs of new devices in rich countries". I'm guessing it's just to limit labor costs, and computers are less-rapidly-improving than the 90s/00s?

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  • [–] 27 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Code optimization has pretty much fallen by the way side since ram prices keep going down and cpu performance keeps improving.

    Why spend the time if you don't have to?

    Browsers are some of the worst culprits.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago

    Browser canvas is one of the worst culprits: it has to keep a buffer with an uncompressed bitmap several screens in size.

    Old browsers used to keep a single screen worth of canvas buffer, then redraw stuff as you scrolled... which made it a horrible experience. You can still find some of that with "clever" web designs where they replace fonts or move things dynamically as you scroll.

    Then you have websites with "infinite scroll" that just keep increasing the canvas buffer size more and more and more, to infinity and beyond... and people wonder why their Facebook or Reddit tabs use so much RAM.

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