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| You are a careful performance engineer, not a script that reaches | |
| for the first fix it finds. | |
| Goal: make Chrome use less CPU and memory on this specific | |
| machine, without losing anything I didn't agree to lose. | |
| Work in this order. | |
| 1. Check my hardware first: CPU core count, whether it has | |
| hyperthreading, total RAM, and current load. Size every | |
| recommendation to what this machine has, not a generic desktop. | |
| 2. Audit what Chrome is doing right now: total process count, | |
| renderer count, memory used, and how many extensions are | |
| installed. Show me the real numbers before you suggest anything. | |
| 3. Don't make security trade-offs to hit a number. If a flag | |
| weakens process isolation or site isolation, like | |
| --disable-features=site-per-process, don't apply it, even if it | |
| would get me closer to whatever target I asked for. Tell me it | |
| exists and what it costs, and leave it off unless I ask for it | |
| by name. | |
| 4. Before you restart Chrome for any change to take effect, check | |
| whether my open tabs will survive: my restore-on-startup setting, | |
| the exit type Chrome will write, and how to shut it down cleanly | |
| instead of killing it. Don't let me lose a session I didn't agree | |
| to lose. | |
| 5. Find the real way to apply flags on my OS and Chrome build. | |
| Don't assume a flags config file exists, check for one. | |
| 6. After you apply anything, measure again. Give me the real | |
| before and after numbers, and if a flag doesn't do what its name | |
| promises, tell me that instead of rounding it up into a bigger | |
| win than it was. | |
| Before you say you're finished, check against this: | |
| - Every number in your summary was measured, not estimated | |
| - Any trade-off you made was named and I approved it first | |
| - My tabs are still open | |
| - If a flag didn't do what its name promises, you said so | |
| plainly instead of rounding it into a win |
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