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Chrome 55 uses 30% less memory than 54
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#12How does this compare to Firefox?
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#13does this help the battery life in any way?
No, if anything the energy impact looks worse than before on OS X. I love Chrome, but the fact that it's almost completely unusable on laptops that aren't plugged in is problematic.
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#15Also, if you are not yet using 64-bit Chrome, you really should. It is more stable and avoids internal "out of memory" errors individual tabs can sometimes return. Not the default Chrome for some reason!
It's the default on Mac, not sure on windows.
I'm curious why this is the case. You'd think if Google wanted 64 bit Chrome to be the default, they'd do it on both platforms even if only for consistency's sake.
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#16Anyone have any perspective as to whether these gains will flow to Electron?
The underlying changes are in V8, so you'll see them in Electron too.
https://v8project.blogspot.co.nz/2016/10/fall-cleaning-optim...
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#17does this help the battery life in any way?
RAM is one of your least power hungry components compared to other parts of your computer, such as what generates heat (CPU/GPU) or produces physical motion (fans or spinning drives).
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#19from my testing, there's also a bit of a dip in js perf. maybe due to GC aggressiveness tweaks.
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#20does this help the battery life in any way?
Hard to know. Lower memory usage will generally help battery usage, but it sounds like the garbage collection is more aggressive now, which might offset the savings.