Google Chrome now gobbles up 20% less memory on Windows

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Google says that the latest Google Chrome version comes with major memory savings on Windows systems and improves energy consumption and overall responsiveness.
Google Chrome 89, which rolled out earlier this week, comes with significant Windows memory management improvements, with the browser process requiring up to 22% less memory.

According to Mark Chang, Chrome Product Manager, the new version also boasts 8% memory savings in the renderer and roughly 3% in the GPU.
"We've achieved this by using PartitionAlloc, our own advanced memory allocator, which is optimized for low allocation latency, space efficiency, and security," Chang explained.
Google has used the security-focused PartitionAlloc extensively for a while now for memory management within Blink, the company's browser rendering.

"We're very excited to bring you these performance improvements and have much more to come, so stay tuned," Chang concluded.

Google Chrome now gobbles up 20% less memory on Windows

Google says that the latest Google Chrome version comes with major memory savings on Windows systems and improves energy consumption and overall responsiveness.

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[Gandalf_The_Grey]

Google Chrome update finally reduces RAM usage on Windows 10:

Last month, we reported that Google has been internally testing a new feature that could significantly reduce memory usage on Windows 10. With Chrome 89, which is now available for download, the search giant has finally enabled ‘PartitionAlloc-everywhere’ support for its browser.

Google has confirmed that Chrome 89 features better tab throttling, discard and better resource management with ‘PartitionAlloc-everywhere’.

This feature is supposed to improve the way in which Google Chrome performs on Windows 10. According to Chromium commits, ‘PartitionAlloc-everywhere’ support allows the browser to reduce RAM usage, load webpages faster and offer improved processor power management.

PartitionAlloc-everywhere feature comes with an advanced memory allocator to reduce memory usage of Chrome by up to 22% in the browser process. Likewise, Google says the update has reduced memory usage by 8% in the browser’s renderer, and 3% in the GPU.

Google Chrome has also become 9% more responsive, thanks to the new tabs discarding improvements.

Chrome 89 represents a minor drop in memory usage of foreground tabs as well. To reduce the memory usage of foreground tabs, Google Chrome will now discard the foreground tab automatically and reclaim up to 100MiB per tab, which could be more than 20% on some popular sites.

Upcoming improvements

For example, Google plans to purge thread cache periodically in child processes of Chrome. This happens on a per-process basis, which should improve the overall performance for GPU, rendering and utility.

Google Chrome update finally reduces RAM usage on Windows 10

Last month, we reported that Google has been internally testing a new feature that could significantly reduce memory usage on Windows 10. With Chrome 89, which is now available for download, the search giant has finally enabled ‘PartitionAlloc-everywhere’ support for its browser. Google has...

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[TairikuOkami]

I guess that explains, why FB or youtube take 20 more seconds to load or they end up loading indefinitely. I would be glad, if it would rather used 20% more RAM and no issues at all.

 

[Sammo]

I guess that explains, why FB or youtube take 20 more seconds to load or they end up loading indefinitely. I would be glad, if it would rather used 20% more RAM and no issues at all.

I haven't noticed any slow downs. FB takes 1.2 seconds, YT 1.8 seconds.