I'm not sure how impressed I should feel about saving 45 MiB these days.
Adblock data is accessed on every request; so this is 45 MiB of cpu cache.
Brave overhauled its Rust adblock engine with FlatBuffers, cutting memory 75%
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Re: Brave overhauled its Rust adblock engine with FlatBuffers, cutting memory 75%
#12Earlier quoted context omitted.
> these days Are you referring to current RAM prices or bloat of numerous Electron apps?
A $130 Motorola smartphone has 8GB of RAM. This will save 0.5% RAM. It's fairly negligible on modern systems.
Now multiply that across all apps/services/extensions/profiles and it adds up.
This kind of lazy thinking is why today’s software is so bloated and slow.
Re: Brave overhauled its Rust adblock engine with FlatBuffers, cutting memory 75%
#13Re: Brave overhauled its Rust adblock engine with FlatBuffers, cutting memory 75%
#14Brave's adblocking engine is a neat example of open source and the ease of sharing lbraries in Rust. It uses Servo crates (also used by Firefox) to parse CSS and evaluate selectors, and is then itself published as a crate on crates.io where it can be pulled in by others who may want to use it.
Re: Brave overhauled its Rust adblock engine with FlatBuffers, cutting memory 75%
#15Is that 45 MiB per-tab? People are laughing it off, but since each tab is a process these days..
Re: Brave overhauled its Rust adblock engine with FlatBuffers, cutting memory 75%
#16I hope that this is the start of developers being conscious of using resources efficiently again, especially in the browser.
The more rust gets written, the better AI will be able to write it for people... I like to be optimistic.
Re: Brave overhauled its Rust adblock engine with FlatBuffers, cutting memory 75%
#17I just found out Brave supports Vertical tabs, https://brave.com/blog/vertical-tabs/
I might have to try switching from FF...
Re: Brave overhauled its Rust adblock engine with FlatBuffers, cutting memory 75%
#18I hope that this is the start of developers being conscious of using resources efficiently again, especially in the browser. The more rust gets written, the better AI will be able to write it for people... I like to be optimistic.
The adblocker was already written in Rust.
Re: Brave overhauled its Rust adblock engine with FlatBuffers, cutting memory 75%
#19I just found out Brave supports Vertical tabs, https://brave.com/blog/vertical-tabs/ I might have to try switching from FF...
Do they support nested tabs? Makes visually navigating many tabs so much easier that way.
Re: Brave overhauled its Rust adblock engine with FlatBuffers, cutting memory 75%
#20Funny that the iOS update notes don't mention this at all:
> in this release:
> Other enhancements, stability improvements, and security updates
No mention of efficiency, or adblocking whatsoever!