List of posts with the tag: Memory

In Extreme Tech are reporting that the Nightly version of Firefox 8 is already 20% faster than Firefox 5 in almost every metric (start up, session restore, first paint, JavaScript execution, and even 2D canvas and 3D WebGL rendering). The memory footprint of Firefox 7 (and thus 8) has also been drastically reduced, along with…

We all know that flash and other types of solid state storage can only endure a limited number of write cycles. The open source Flash Destroyer prototype explores that limit by writing and verifying a solid state storage chip until it dies. The total write-verify cycle count is shown on a display — watch a…