gHacks technology news » memory consumption http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Wed, 25 Nov 2009 09:10:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Safari on Windows is not really memory efficient http://www.ghacks.net/2008/07/08/safari-on-windows-is-not-really-memory-efficient/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/07/08/safari-on-windows-is-not-really-memory-efficient/#comments Tue, 08 Jul 2008 15:28:30 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=5258 That’s at least what Sam Allen discovered who used a software that he programmed to record memory usage of processes in Windows. He tested Safari 3.1 along with Firefox 3, Opera 9.5, Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 and Flock and discovered a huge gap between Safari and the other four browsers.

His application recorded the memory usage of the browser every three seconds over a period of three hours each and the graphs show clearly that there does not seem to be an end to Safari’s memory hunger. In the end Safari was using more than 630 Megabytes of RAM compared to 111 Megabytes for Firefox 3, 191 Megabytes for Flock, 190 Megabytes for Opera and 194 Megabytes for Internet Explorer 8.

The conclusion of the author is that “Safari on Windows shows extremely poor memory management [..] certainly a design that looks inefficient and seems to contradict Apple’s marketing”.

Firefox 3 on the other hand seems to have memory efficiency written all over its face.

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