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		ygra on July 31, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why are most browsers developed in C++? Chrome did this since the beginning but didn't use that much memory back then. So clearly processes aren't the only answer.

kintamanimatt on July 31, 2013 [–]

Chrome's codebase also got more complex so now every new process consumes a lot more memory. It's a way of achieving concurrency, but it's not necessarily the best way in terms of memory footprint.

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