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It doesn't have to be a big memory hog though.

At my day job I create apps for TV decoders. Most of those render and run in browsers.

The boxes have 1 GB memory, the browser uses just a small fraction of that. A lot of the browser memory is used for graphics (think bitmaps), the JS-heap is only 4 MB, not sure about the rendering engine.

Granted, we use SVG, not HTML/CSS, for most of these apps.



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