[ale] Netscape an d memory

Jeff Barber jeffb at sware.com
Thu Jun 20 10:07:28 EDT 1996


Christopher Fowler writes:
> 
> Has anyone noticed that netscape uses ungodly amounts of swap and memory?

Yeah, well, that's what happens when you build in a mail reader, and a
news reader, and a java compiler and interpreter, and javascript
interpreter, and a jpeg viewer and a gif viewer and crypto libraries,
and ....  all into the same program.  Then you put an X/Xt/Motif
interface on it...

Oh, yeah, and don't forget the in-memory document cache (which defaults
to 3 MB).


-- Jeff






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