As anyone who’s used Chrome regularly can confirm, Google’s browser has a way of running away with all your RAM once you get past a handful of tabs. However, Google has taken note of the new SegmentHeap functionality in Windows. A new comment in the Chromium open source project suggests the addition of SegmentHeap support on Windows. The comment notes that devices with higher numbers of processor threads will benefit the most, but everyone should get some RAM back. Testing individual machines with modified Chrome executables shows that SegmentHeap could save several hundred megabytes at least.SegmentHeap support for stable versions of Chrome is still months away.
Windows 10 SegmentHeap may cut memory usage of Chrome
Posted on Friday, June 19 2020 @ 9:41 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck