As the largest browser on the market, Chrome is the most criticized for consuming system resources. However, Google is developing technology that can reduce Chrome's consumption of operating system resources. This is called PartitionAlloc.
How does PartitionAlloc work?
According to the Chromium project website, PartitionAlloc is a memory allocator that can allocate enough segment size for the objects in the memory partition. The most important goal of PartitionAlloc is security. It should isolate different sections from each other in the URL space. This will prevent the intrusion of malicious programs into the operating system. Its other features include making Chrome launch faster, loading internal web pages faster, and reducing RAM consumption.
Windows Latest the, that Google started developing a technology called PartitionAlloc last year and plans to bring the technology to Windows, Android, Linux, and other operating systems soon.
The latest commit of the Chromium project shows, that PartitionAlloc – Everywhere has now been pushed to Windows and Android beta to be enabled by default. But the Linux version still has some problems. The planned progress of the Linux version is unknown.
Another c noted, that tests of PartitionAlloc on the Android platform have shown that this technology can improve memory consumption, performance, and stability in most GPU processing environments. As for the actual effect of the improvement for Windows 10 and Android, its effect is still unclear
The Microsoft Edge team, which uses the Chromium project, is also trying to reduce the browser's resource usage. Last year, Windows 10 2004 added a feature called SegmentHeap. This should reduce the memory used by Win32 programs by up to 27%.
Beta version Edge 88 last December added support for dormant tabs. It can reduce simple tabs using 32% of memory and 37% of CPU resources.
