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gprasanth on Jan 3, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Vanta.js: Animated 3D backgrounds for websites

It's crazy how little memory browser tabs and webviews get on iOS. With the devices themselves having memory crunch, with hardly ~1gb of usable ram available, there's so much pressure on efficiency everywhere ~ modelling, loading, rendering.

noduerme on Jan 3, 2022 [–]

What's crazy is 1gb of memory in a browser tab, when Steve-O said Flash games that took up 1Mb were too heavy.

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