Comment on Microsoft's Weather App Eats More RAM Than Most Browsers – and Serves You Ads
pivot_root@lemmy.world 2 days agoA 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.