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- schapel, on 11/12/2007, -0/+6Well, of course Firefox has problems with memory fragmentation. Any program that does memory allocation without relocatable memory blocks has problems with memory fragmentation. I think that would include all popular browsers. The real news is that they "don't see any real leaks." That's why they're looking into memory fragmentation -- it's the only remaining way to significantly reduce memory use any further. That is, unless someone wants to point out a humongous leak we're all still mysteriously missing...
- schapel, on 11/12/2007, -0/+4BTW, memory fragmentation cannot be solved with garbage collection alone. You need relocatable memory blocks, as I mentioned in my first post, to allow for memory defragmentation.
- schapel, on 11/12/2007, -3/+1What do you mean "they finally realized what the problem was"? Firefox already uses less memory than other browsers. Anyway, it's completely clear that memory fragmentation and caches are two reasons that browsers use more memory than users might expect. I've personally been saying so for years. It seems like you're trying to make it sound like Firefox has some sort of problem with memory that others browsers don't have. If so, could you explain how I would see the problem? If I can reproduce it, I'll file a bug report so the problem can be fixed.
- HeroreV, on 11/12/2007, -5/+1I'm glad they finally realized what the problem was, but why did it take them so long? Hundreds of developers and none of them ever wondered if maybe Firefox was just spreading everything out a lot? They've put tons of effort into finding every tiny little insignificant memory leak. If they had thought of this sooner, maybe it'd be solved already.
BTW, this is another problem that can be easily solved with garbage collection. GC is not just hand-holding for ***** programmers despite what some elitist snobs might say. Garbage collection can provide an enormous leap in programmer efficiency for even very smart people like the ones who work at the top of Mozilla.
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