Benchmarking JavaScript Memory Usage
Phew. I was doing the research on this one for quite awhile. I'd been saying, off-hand, at workshops and in talks that I suspected we have a lot of serious JavaScript-related memory issues running rampant on the web, but we don't realize it because the metrics and tooling there are pretty sparse.
With Chrome supporting a new memory API, figured I'd start benchmarking just how much memory we use to help get this topic a bit more attention.
Read the post here.