diff --git a/Contributed-memory-usage:-benchmarks-over-time.md b/Contributed-memory-usage:-benchmarks-over-time.md index 9639759..90d6e26 100644 --- a/Contributed-memory-usage:-benchmarks-over-time.md +++ b/Contributed-memory-usage:-benchmarks-over-time.md @@ -1,8 +1,8 @@ -This page is just a place for me to keep track of contributed memory to web pages over time. I consider the contributed memory to webpages to be more important than the own memory footprint. Unfortunately, a user can not see how much memory overhead an extension contributes to a webpage without running a benchmark like the one here. Keep in mind the results here are only for **one basic web page.** +This page is just a place for me to keep track of contributed memory to web pages over time. I consider the contributed memory to web pages to be more important than the own memory footprint. Unfortunately, a user can not see how much memory overhead an extension contributes to a web page without running a benchmark like the one here. Keep in mind the results here are only for **one basic web page.** -Using [Acid Test 3](http://acid3.acidtests.org/), a simple webpage with embedded `iframes`, the webpage opened in a new tab for each extension after a browser restart. +Using [Acid Test 3](http://acid3.acidtests.org/), a simple web page with embedded `iframes`, the web page opened in a new tab for each extension after a browser restart. -Each extension was tested alone, with no other extensions enabled. Leaving the browser idle for more than 1 minute ensured that the webpage memory was garbage collected. +Each extension was tested alone, with no other extensions enabled. Leaving the browser idle for more than 1 minute ensured that the web page memory was garbage collected. Added the following steps for benchmarks dated December 2014 and later: @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ I found that this was now necessary as it appears the Chromium garbage collector - Adblock Plus (ABP) 1.8.8 (_EasyList_, _EasyPrivacy_, _Malware Protection List_, _"Acceptable ads"_ disabled) Summary of results: -- Reference memory usage for the webpage: 23 MB +- Reference memory usage for the web page: 23 MB - uBO adds over 10 MB - ABP adds over 33 MB - ABP with the same filter lists as uBO adds over 46 MB @@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ ABP with same filter lists as uBO:
- ABP 1.8.5 (_EasyList_, _EasyPrivacy_, _Malware Protection List_, _"Acceptable ads"_ disabled) Summary of results: -- Reference memory usage for the webpage: 22 MB +- Reference memory usage for the web page: 22 MB - uBO Plus adds over 9 MB - ABP adds over 32 MB @@ -60,4 +60,4 @@ ABP:
Observations: -The last time I ran this benchmark [was on Chromium 34 64-bit](./%C2%B5Block-vs.-ABP:-efficiency-compared#added-memory-footprint-to-web-pages), and it does appear that Chromium 37 is causing webpages to consume more memory. The reference result went from ~17 MB to ~22 MB. +The last time I ran this benchmark [was on Chromium 34 64-bit](./%C2%B5Block-vs.-ABP:-efficiency-compared#added-memory-footprint-to-web-pages), and it does appear that Chromium 37 is causing web pages to consume more memory. The reference result went from ~17 MB to ~22 MB.