Security News > 2021 > March > Google Chrome now gobbles up 20% less memory on Windows

Google says that the latest Google Chrome version comes with major memory savings on Windows systems and improves energy consumption and overall responsiveness.

Google Chrome 89, which rolled out earlier this week, comes with significant Windows memory management improvements, with the browser process requiring up to 22% less memory.

According to Mark Chang, Chrome Product Manager, the new version also boasts 8% memory savings in the renderer and roughly 3% in the GPU. "We've achieved this by using PartitionAlloc, our own advanced memory allocator, which is optimized for low allocation latency, space efficiency, and security," Chang explained.

Google has used the security-focused PartitionAlloc extensively for a while now for memory management within Blink, the company's browser rendering.

Google says that similar memory savings have been achieved in the latest Chrome version on browser tab memory management, with 8% less RAM needed.

With the release of Google Chrome 87 in November 2020, Google optimized the web browser performance leading to 25% faster start-ups and 7% faster page loads while using less memory.

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