[ggreg84]

> Optimizing for speed usually causes increased memory consumption,

Lol, no?

If your benchmark is memory bound, reducing memory usage is probably the simplest way to make it faster.

[viraptor]

There are some truly memory-bound problems, but I believe the parent comment is correct on average. A lot of common speed issues can be helped by: adding a cache, adding an extra lookup index, memoising calculated values, adding a new denormalised data projection, etc. I think "usually" was a fair description.

[rat9988]

He is right though. Chrome isn't memory bound... yet.

[ggreg84]

Do you have a reference?