A new feature in Microsoft’s May 2020 Windows update will allow Google to make substantial reductions to the amount of RAM that Chrome uses.<\/p>\n
Microsoft has added a feature called SegmentHeap<\/strong><\/a> which reduces the memory usage of Win32 applications such as web browsers.<\/p>\n The feature replaces the legacy heap technology and has been made available for developers to use in their applications.<\/p>\n Microsoft’s Chromium-based Edge browser already uses<\/strong><\/a> this new feature and the company said it has seen a reduction in memory usage of up to 27%.<\/p>\n “Our goal on the Microsoft Edge team is to deliver the best performing browser possible on Windows and other platforms,” said Microsoft.<\/p>\n “When a browser uses too much memory, it can slow down the whole system; memory, in general, is a critical resource to keeping any device running smoothly.”<\/p>\n Google plans to follow in the Edge browser’s footsteps and use SegmentHeap to reduce its memory usage.<\/p>\n A Google Chrome engineer said<\/strong><\/a> they expect the new feature to result in significant benefits for users.<\/p>\n \u201cExperiments with per-machine opting-in to the segment heap for chrome.exe suggests that this could save hundreds of MB in the browser and Network Service utility processes, among others, on some machines,” said Google.<\/p>\n Google added that while real-world results will vary, everyone should experience significant benefits from this change – the biggest of which will be found on multi-core computers.<\/p>\n The feature is not yet available for Google Chrome, however.<\/p>\n The Google engineer said that the company still needs to solve build issues before the release version of Chrome can use this new feature.<\/p>\n \u201cWe could enable it now but that would cause build warnings. Therefore enabling it is blocked on a switch to the Windows 10.0.19041.0 SDK which is currently blocked on some mysterious build failures,\u201d said Google.<\/p>\n A new feature in Microsoft’s May 2020 Windows update will allow Google to make substantial reductions to the amount of RAM that Chrome uses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341039,"featured_media":332362,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[1137,30102,12505,953],"class_list":["post-356923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-google-chrome","tag-microsoft-edge","tag-microsoft-windows","tag-windows-update"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356923"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341039"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356923"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":356983,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356923\/revisions\/356983"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Chrome to use SegmentHeap<\/h3>\n
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