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pcwalton on Feb 14, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why Rust's ownership/borrowing is hard

> It's going to be interesting to see if Servo puts a dent in browser memory consumption. It's insane that browsers now can need more than 1GB of RAM. There have to be multiple copies of the same data.

Most of a browser's memory consumption usually consists of JS and DOM objects. In effect, the pages you're visiting are actually doing the bulk of the allocations, not your browser.

Manishearth on Feb 14, 2016 [–]

Though each DOM object might be smaller for us. Maybe.

Gecko has troubles with leaking the DOM because it CCs the DOM. We don't need to worry about that since Spidermonkey's GC manages the Servo DOM, too.

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