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"This feature is currently enabled on Windows and will be deployed later for macOS and Linux as well"

Look forward to trying this out when it becomes available for an OS I use.



One reason why it shipped on Windows first is that the situation is more serious there. The article goes into details why the different overcommit behavior is more problematic on Windows, and you're more likely to OOM there as a result.

Getting macOS to OOM is actually pretty difficult, we probably want to unload tabs before that point for performance (swap!) reasons, but that's also harder to measure very reliably.




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