Comment on Microsoft's Weather App Eats More RAM Than Most Browsers – and Serves You Ads

possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• libewa@feddit.org ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  JavaScript

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  • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Javascript by itself isn’t an issue. Many applications use javascript without issue

    The problem is chromium

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    • pivot_root@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      A few years ago, the Chromium blog had an article about how it improved energy use by dehydrating parts of the JavaScript standard library from a snapshot instead of initializing it on demand. From what I remember, the snapshot was hundreds of megabytes.

      ECMAScript, the core language is fine.

      JavaScript—with the DOM APIs—is not.

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