Updated Memory footprint: what happens inside µBlock after installation (markdown)

Raymond Hill 2015-02-13 13:16:31 -05:00
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- Generating the selfie also causes short-term memory churning, which short-term memory will be garbage-collected eventually
- Again, this short term memory churning causes µBlock's baseline memory footprint to grow further
- Any change in the selection of filter lists, or change in the content of selected filter lists will invalidate µBlock's selfie
1. Even after the growth in memory baseline, µBlock's own memory footprint is still quite smaller than that of Adblock Plus -- once the garbage collector does its job.
1. µBlock's much smaller contributed memory footprint to web pages is much smaller than that of ABP
1. Even after the growth in memory baseline, µBlock's _own memory_ footprint is still quite smaller than that of Adblock Plus -- once the garbage collector does its job.
1. µBlock's much smaller _contributed memory_ footprint to web pages is much smaller than that of ABP
- The contributed footprint to web pages is part of the memory footprint of the web pages themselves
- As opposed to an extension's own memory footprint, visible using Chromium's _"Task Manager"_, the contributed memory footprint to web pages cannot be easily seen by users
- Though this measure is not readily visible, it's where you get the biggest bang for the buck with µBlock relative to ABP -- because µBlock **does not** inject thousands of CSS rules into pages and embedded frames.