Some notes on performance

[Joakim via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 2 September 2014 at 11:19:09 UTC, Joakim wrote:
> On Tuesday, 2 September 2014 at 10:23:58 UTC, po wrote:
>> The first link says that Chrome is a *90* meg binary!  Gawd 
>> damn. Either they write some really bloated code, or modern 
>> browsers require way too much shit to function.
>
> The latter.
>
> On Tuesday, 2 September 2014 at 10:34:05 UTC, ketmar via 
> Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> i believe that he means "non-stripped binary".
>
> I think that might be stripped: Chrome is gigantic, about as 
> big as the base install of an open-source unix like FreeBSD, ie 
> kernel and userland.  That's why people compare web browsers to 
> OS's these days. ;)

That reminded me, here's a navigable treemap of their binary from 
four years ago, made by the ninja guy, when it was "only" 28.5 
MBs:

http://neugierig.org/software/chromium/bloat/

His blog post from back then with a bit more info:

http://neugierig.org/software/chromium/notes/2010/11/tree-maps.html