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No wonder why Google Chrome takes up alot of RAM when running, I've just seen chromiums dev requirements:

System requirements

- A 64-bit Intel machine with at least 8GB of RAM. More than 16GB is highly recommended.

- At least 100GB of free disk space on an NTFS-formatted hard drive. FAT32 will not work, as some of the Git packfiles are larger than 4GB.

- An appropriate version of Visual Studio, as described below.
Windows 7 or newer.

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  • 2
    Feels like chrome needs that when you’re running it normally πŸ˜‚

    Currently I have 7 tabs open and I’m at 1GB usage

    For comparison, In PHPStorm I have 41 tabs open with 1.1GB usage
  • 2
    Still remember when it was written "32GB is highly recommended" πŸ˜‚ πŸ₯΄
  • 9
    @err-occured you're comparing browser tabs to IDE tabs, jesus christ wtf.
  • 3
    @Jilano 😱it's not my fault chrome has a large ass, it's not like I forced the popcorn down its throat at gun point.... shouldn't have said that, nope that didn't happen ok πŸ˜‡
  • 2
    @myss they do state in the docs that when building chromium, 20+ cores and 64GB ram is NOT excessive 🀯, wish that was my gaming rig
  • 0
    Welcome to the world of C++
  • 1
    Development of large software takes a fair amount of resources. Try compiling chromium yourself, you need pretty decent hardware for it to be fast enough to make working with it anything less than excruciating.
  • 0
    @Trablarer yes but why would you need gigabytes of ram just to interpret a bunch of text and render it?
    Just because we have lots of spare ram on our machines doesn't mean developers should use as much of it as possible.
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