+1. Most people are not doing compiles, we're trying to say that people live
in the web and in their browser, and that their browser is the primary
application. For me at least, that is true. The browser is the app I use the
most -- the only other app I use regularly is an ssh client, which can
usually fit in memory or get swapped back in much quicker than Chrome.
2009/6/23 Peter Kasting <pkast...@chromium.org>
> FWIW, I strongly believe we should move the default to --memory-model=high.
> This is what pretty much every other app in the world does, and we mostly
> penalize ourselves when the OS aggressively swaps us out for a dumb reason
> (which yes, Windows does do).
> We have a lot of complaints of "I came back the next hour/day/whatever and
> everything was unresponsive". I don't think our current tradeoff is the
> right one.
>
> I know Mike wants to be a good citizen and feels like if the OS swapped you
> out it really needed that RAM, but in my own observations of my machine the
> OS swaps for retarded reasons and I gain nothing but headaches.
>
> PK
>
> >
>
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