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Brave overhauled its Rust adblock engine with FlatBuffers, cutting memory 75%

https://brave.com/privacy-updates/36-adblock-memory-reduction/

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Brave overhauls adblock engine, cutting its memory consumption by 75% | Brave

Brave has overhauled its Rust-based adblock engine to reduce memory consumption by 75%, bringing better battery life and smoother multitasking to all users.

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KDAB Apr 15, 2025

Here's a Heaptrack - a heap memory profiler for Linux - success story: 10x memory peak reduction from 140GB to 14GB in the genotyping domain: https://github.com/PacificBiosciences/sawfish/issues/15#issuecomment-2800538226
More on Heaptrack: https://github.com/KDE/heaptrack #Linux #Profiling #MemoryReduction
https://github.com/PacificBiosciences/sawfish/issues/15#issuecomment-2800538226

High memory usage for joint-calling large cohort · Issue #15 · PacificBiosciences/sawfish

Hi, I'm trying to call SVs in a large-ish cohort (214 cattle samples with 3 Gb genome, median ~10x coverage). From #9, it seems like larger cohorts are not the intended use for sawfish, but I was a...

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