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by leo_e
198 days ago
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Hardware is faster, but the "abstraction tax" is higher than ever. As someone currently fighting to shave megabytes off a C++ engine, it hurts my soul to see a simple chat app (Electron) consume 800MB just to idle. We spent the last decade using Moore's Law to subsidize lazy garbage collection, five layers of virtualization, and shipping entire web browsers as application runtimes. The computer is fast, but the software is drowning it. |
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Safari is still leaking memory where a single tab managed to use 50GB regardless of which website it is.