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weird-eye-issueyesterday at 2:40 PM1 replyview on HN

Recently I had a laggy browser tab and I checked and it literally was using 7.6 GB of RAM.


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Koshkinyesterday at 9:23 PM

Quite often clients were more powerful than servers. Hell, at one point a CPU embedded into a printer could be faster than, say, 8088. An X server (running on the client side) often required a more powerful machine than one running X clients (i.e. a server). A web browser is not an exception.