Chrome will soon be less of a memory hog in Windows 10
Chrome will soon be less of a memory hog in
Windows 10
It's borrowing a cue from Microsoft Edge.
Jon Fingas,
June 21, 2020
Google has
spent years trying to reduce Chrome’s notorious appetite for
memory, and it’ll soon offer a substantial improvement for Windows
10 users. WindowsLatest has learned (via MSPowerUser) that a
Google engineer recently revealed that a
future Chrome release will use a technique from Microsoft Edge to
lower RAM usage and theoretically boost performance. Chrome will switch to
“Segment Heap” memory management that, in Microsoft’s experience, cut memory
use by 27 percent.
The improvements in Chrome could vary wildly depending on the
system, but tests indicated that it could sometimes save “hundreds of MB” in
the browser and system processes. “Many-core” systems are most likely to see
the largest benefit, the engineer said.
You should see the feature soon after Google can build Chrome using
the right Windows 10 developer kit. This won’t necessarily lead to massive
improvements in performance, but it could help if you either have limited
memory in your system or simply like to keep many browser tabs open.
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