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by ivanca 4250 days ago
But what about the all the other processes in the device? There may be another process at the same time who may benefit from such GC, perhaps a video being played inside a plugin, or just Photoshop being run side-to-side with the browser and things like that.

It may not benefit the app but it may benefit the user, which is clearly a relevant metric.