On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 10:52:42 +0100 Richard Porter <r...@minijem.plus.com> wrote:
> On 26 Apr 2010 Rob Kendrick wrote: > > > On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 10:39:02 +0100 > > Russell Hafter - Lists <rh.li...@phone.coop> wrote: > > >> Seeing the information on Netsurf 2.5 I got the impression > >> that the memory theft problem had been sorted. > > > No. The root cause of the problem is RISC OS's dreadful memory > > management. NetSurf 2.5 simply has some measures to mitigate the > > issue. > > Whether or not RISC OS's memory management is dreadful, most tasks > seem to cope with it. Most tasks are not handling data structures anywhere near as complex as NetSurf is. The only other that springs to mind is Firefox, and I think we'll all agree that NetSurf is far more frugal. B.
