Comment by 🦔 partasiili
Re: "Hi, I'm trying out Lagrange and geminispace in general. I…"
Okay yeah, I see now from about:debug that Lagrange's total memory usage is a measly 0.371 MB, but according to the OS it's using (or has reserved? I don't know how MacOS memory management works) 181,7MB. This is after freshly launching Lagrange with a few tabs open, all text. I guess my OS is being wonky, then?
Re: GPU discussion, this is an old iMac with a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M, 512 MB VRAM. I don't know how to check if Lagrange is using that.
2025-12-16 · 5 months ago
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On my Linux box Firefox uses gigabytes. I think latest thinking is that unused memory is wasted memory and it's the coder's privilege and responsibility to come up with some way to use it all up.
Original Post
Hi, I'm trying out Lagrange and geminispace in general. I love the sleek minimalism and snappiness of Lagrange, but then I had a look at the Activity Monitor (on MacOS 10.15)... and Lagrange is using more memory (700mb) than Firefox (500mb), which is crazy. Is this normal? I would expect the 'smolweb' be, well, smol in memory consumption as well.