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A look at memory usage in Firefox 3A look at memory usage in Firefox 3
[Development] Posted Mar 12, 2008 14:26 UTC (Wed) by corbet
"Pavlov" has posted a detailed look at what was done to reduce memory usage in Firefox 3. "Another fantastic change from Alfred Kayser changed the way we store animated GIFs so that they take up a lot less memory. We now store the animated frames as 8bit data along with a palette rather than storing them as 32 bits per pixel. This savings can be huge for large animations. One extreme example from the bug showed us drop from using 368MB down to 108MB savings of 260MB!"
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