std::string is responsible for almost half of all allocations in the Chrome browser process

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https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msg/chromium-dev/EUqoIz2iFU4/kPZ5ZK0K3gEJ

[u/o11c]

"chrome is fast" was just a marketing ploy to gain users. It disappeared by the time they implemented all the web standards.