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		curt15 on May 9, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: All Chromebooks will also be Linux laptops going f... >so it's heavily optimized and running a browser tab doesn't effect battery as much as it would on a Mac, for example. What sort of optimizations can they do for ChromeOS that they can't do for Chrome on Macs?

HeWhoLurksLate on May 9, 2019 [–]

IIRC, directly hooking into the kernel / modifying the kernel directly, instead of working around it.

It's also sort of a "home base" in the Chrome development world.

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