diff --git a/Notes-on-memory-benchmarks,-selfies.md b/Notes on memory benchmarks, selfies.md similarity index 92% rename from Notes-on-memory-benchmarks,-selfies.md rename to Notes on memory benchmarks, selfies.md index c10633d..b6e0783 100644 --- a/Notes-on-memory-benchmarks,-selfies.md +++ b/Notes on memory benchmarks, selfies.md @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ When I run my benchmarks, the methodology used is to reproduce what I believe is the most common scenario: a user launches his/her browser with µBlock already fully configured to his/her liking, without further changes to the selection of filter lists. The launch-and-forget scenario. I also benchmark this way for all other blockers. -However there are specific operations which will cause µBlock to churn through lot of short-term memory (let's call this "memory-churning"), and although all that short-term memory is freed by µBlock once the specific operation is completed, not all that freed memory will be garbage-collected by the browser for whatever reasons. Memory fragmentation is possibly a factor. +However there are specific operations which will cause µBlock to churn through lot of short-term memory (let's call this "memory-churning"), and although all that short-term memory is freed by µBlock once the specific operation is completed, not all that freed memory will be garbage-collected by the browser for whatever reasons. Memory fragmentation is possibly a factor. This causes an higher memory baseline for µBlock, as can be seen in the browser's _Task Manager_. So in essence you won't obtain the same memory figures which I used in my published benchmarks if you caused µBlock to go through memory-churning before looking at the memory figures.