alt Hacker NewsIs there a straightforward way to have one-process-per tab in browsers without using significant amounts (O(n_tabs)) of memory?
Is there a straightforward way to have one-process-per tab in browsers without using significant amounts (O(n_tabs)) of memory?
There is no justification for that IMHO. The program text only needs to be in memory once. However, each process probably has its own instance of the JS engine, together with the website's heap data and the JIT-compiled code objects. That adds up.