From a54c3a4fd0e128be595fb344118b43ca4d852a60 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: SW1FT Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2015 18:03:26 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Updated Who cares about efficiency, I have 8 GB and|or a quad core CPU (markdown) --- ...es-about-efficiency,-I-have-8-GB-and|or-a-quad-core-CPU.md | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Who-cares-about-efficiency,-I-have-8-GB-and|or-a-quad-core-CPU.md b/Who-cares-about-efficiency,-I-have-8-GB-and|or-a-quad-core-CPU.md index b6ab3c8..a8ef44b 100644 --- a/Who-cares-about-efficiency,-I-have-8-GB-and|or-a-quad-core-CPU.md +++ b/Who-cares-about-efficiency,-I-have-8-GB-and|or-a-quad-core-CPU.md @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -Doing more with less is a virtue in software. For users of µBlock, this means: +Doing more with less is a virtue in software. For users of uBlock, this means: - Less CPU churn when loading a web page, which may translate into noticeable faster page load. - Higher memory consumption correlates with higher CPU-cycle consumption: whatever extra memory is used is memory which has to be allocated/written to/read from (at least once)/garbage collected. @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ _Wasting_ is not _using_. Not convinced yet? Try [this online tool](http://www.numion.com/StopWatch/index.html) to compare how fast web pages load when using one blocker compared to another. -If you have a multi-core CPU, and hence plenty of spare CPU cycles, granted, there may not be such a noticeable difference in page load, but other popular blockers will definitely make use of plenty of whatever spare CPU cycles available (see below) to perform the same job as µBlock. +If you have a multi-core CPU, and hence plenty of spare CPU cycles, granted, there may not be such a noticeable difference in page load, but other popular blockers will definitely make use of plenty of whatever spare CPU cycles available (see below) to perform the same job as uBlock. CPU overhead
![CPU overhead](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gorhill/uBlock/master/doc/benchmarks/cpu-usage-overall-chart-20141226.png)