Google Chrome’s most vital upgrade in years has just been put on hold

As a result, SegmentHeap has been disabled in Chrome 85, which has been undergoing testing and is set to launch August.

Outlining the findings from testing in a post online, Chromium member Bruce Dawson said: “Although I have heard encouraging things about memory savings from lab tests I don’t see any way for us to leave this enabled until we have clean telemetry data and lab tests on 20H1, neither of which will be happening in time for M85.

“So, the plan is to disable this for M85 (thus giving us another telemetry datapoint) and reconsider in the future.

“The CPU cost (10 per cent slowdown on Speedometer 2.0, 13 per cent increase in CPU/power consumption) is too great for us to keep.”

Responding to Dawson’s comments Microsoft employees defended the trade off between memory and CPU but admitted improvements could be made to limit this.

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source: express.co.uk