Memory leaks and web browsers

[lidnariq]

The important difference is that Moore's Law used to mean that "Uses all the resources of 3-year-old hardware" would imply "Works fantastically on current hardware". Not true anymore.

[Dwedit]

The solution to something that unnecessarily uses 100% CPU usage is to dive in with OllyDbg, and find out where it's wasting all the time.
Then insert Sleep(1) there, and watch the CPU usage go down to 1%.

[tepples]

Unless it's spinning on vsync, in which case Sleep(1) may result in visible tearing.

[rainwarrior]

Well, in the case of Hate Plus it's because RenPy has an option to limit the framerate that the author of the game did not enable. Apparently it's off by default, so unfortunately the naive user gets 100% CPU usage.

Thanks for mentioning OllyDbg though, this looks neat. I'd never heard of it.