Month: March 2021

Bundesnetzagentur: DVB-T2-Frequenzen gehen nicht früher an den Mobilfunk

Der Chef der Bundesnetzagentur hat zugesichert, dass der Bereich von 470 bis 694 MHz nicht früher an den Mobilfunk geht. Dort funken Richtmikrofone und DVB-T2. (DVB-T, Technologie)

Der Chef der Bundesnetzagentur hat zugesichert, dass der Bereich von 470 bis 694 MHz nicht früher an den Mobilfunk geht. Dort funken Richtmikrofone und DVB-T2. (DVB-T, Technologie)

Chrome 89 increases desktop memory efficiency with PartitionAlloc

Decreasing RAM usage is more important than ever, with The Great Suspender gone.

This week's new Chrome build doesn't look any different, but it introduces plenty of under-the-hood performance and efficiency improvements.

Enlarge / This week's new Chrome build doesn't look any different, but it introduces plenty of under-the-hood performance and efficiency improvements. (credit: Jim Salter / Pixabay)

Google Chrome version 89 began rolling out to users in the stable channel on March 2 and should be on most people's machines by now. The new build offers significant memory savings on 64-bit Windows platforms thanks to increased use of Google's PartitionAlloc memory allocator. On macOS, Chrome 89 plays catch-up and gets closer to the performance of the flagship Windows builds.

Chrome on Windows

Google says use of RAM in 64-bit Windows is down up to 22 percent in the browser process, 8 percent in the renderer, and 3 percent in the GPU. The company also claims a 9 percent decrease in latency, meaning a more responsive browser. The improvements are largely due to intercepting malloc() calls with PartitionAlloc.

Chrome 89 has also gotten significantly more aggressive about discarding unused RAM. When you scroll resources such as large images off-screen in the foreground tab, Chrome discards the memory those resources used. The change impacts background tabs as well, resulting in a savings of as much as 100MiB per tab.

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Microsoft will stop including Paint 3D and 3D Viewer for new Windows installations

Four years after releasing the Windows 10 Creators Update with an emphasis on new content creation features, Microsoft is making a few of those features optional. Starting with Windows 10 Preview Build 21332, which began rolling out this week, when yo…

Four years after releasing the Windows 10 Creators Update with an emphasis on new content creation features, Microsoft is making a few of those features optional. Starting with Windows 10 Preview Build 21332, which began rolling out this week, when you do a clean install of Windows 10 the Paint 3D and 3D Viewer applications won’t be […]

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