Found this great memory stress tool -- called Safari

So I was surfing around Apple's website this afternoon and found this new Windows download called Safari.  Wondering what it is I downloaded and installed it.  Turns out it's a great memory stress tool.  Check out this screenie of it using nearly 300 megs on my Vista x64 system.

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This is great!  I was able to see how all my other apps work in low memory situations.  As useful as that is, right before I was going to write this blog entry I discovered this wonderful app also renders web pages.  Holy cow!!  This is too much.  What are those Apple guys going to think of next?


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June 11. 2007 09:00 PM

Xaprb

Huh, I wonder if they ripped it off from Firefox? Obviously they improved it, though. Not even Firefox can use THAT much memory. Apple always one-ups everyone else...

Xaprb

June 11. 2007 09:34 PM

crispy

Interesting, thats just about 100x as much memory as it consumes on a 32bit box! Of course if 300Mb causes a low memory condition on you box, I feel your pain man.

crispy

June 11. 2007 11:15 PM

Mike

Impressive, it seems to start small but grow and grow. Maybe that is why Safari is supposedly faster than the other browsers by ~2x, it leaves them little memory to work with.

Mike

June 12. 2007 06:43 AM

Lee Fry

geee what does it do.. download the whole www and run it in memory! lol

Lee Fry

June 12. 2007 03:14 PM

Sebs

Hehe .... Broken garbage collecor .. or javascript as bad as dojo, prototype etc ... leakholes ...all of them. Javascript is a complex topic, people coding don't know that .. so dont blame your browser provider before you checked out the webiste with a leak extension as they are av. for all modern browsers ;)


Apart of that ... it seems to have a memory leak.

Sebs

June 14. 2007 08:15 PM

Reggie

It seems to be better on a restart. Still uses quite a bit more memory than FF or IE. Wonder if the update that hit today is any better?

Reggie

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