Google Chrome will become faster and more memory efficient in Windows 10
Last month, Google Chrome has completely abandoned the Windows 10 segment heap memory mechanism, which is a new memory allocation technology developed by Microsoft.
Originally, Microsoft developed this technology to help applications reduce memory usage. It never thought that memory usage would decrease but processor usage would soar.
After testing in the Google Chrome Canary version, it is found that the memory does decrease after the segment heap memory mechanism is enabled, but the processor resources always remain 100%.
Obviously, this mechanism is not the best solution to the browser memory problem. In the end, Google and Microsoft did not talk about it, so Google has abandoned the segment heap mechanism.
After abandoning the segment heap memory mechanism, Google engineers have now developed a new dynamic memory allocation technology, and Google hopes to continue to reduce memory usage through this technology.
The new technology is called PartitionAlloc-Everywhere dynamic memory allocation technology, which is a function developed by Google engineers to replace the segment heap mechanism.
Google engineers have invested more time and energy in technology, and now the new memory allocation technology seems to have stabilized and waited for release.
According to Google, the new technology helps reduce the memory expenditure of Google Chrome, allows the memory allocator to work more efficiently, and also helps improve security.
However, for now, Google has not disclosed when it will officially launch this feature. Currently, this feature is still being tested to developers in beta versions such as Canary.
In addition to the adjustment of the memory mechanism, Google engineers are also working to optimize the stability of Google Chrome, which is mainly used to reduce the potential crash of Google Chrome.
The cause of the crash is actually related to the use of the process, and Microsoft has provided a new process function called TerminateProcess in Windows 10.
According to Google engineers, this new feature provided by Microsoft can be used for more process types, which helps to reduce the probability of crashes that use more processes.
But if Google Chrome wants to completely abandon the process mechanism, it is a time-consuming and laborious process, so the current Google engineers are gradually migrating.
Via: windowslatest