[webkit-dev] Does webkit hold previous loaded pages in memory

[Nilesh Patil]

Hi

As far as i know it does not store any data persistently unless you
plan to save it. It does have sqlite integrated but not really used
that part of webkit,

As far as DOM/Render Tree are concerned i think they are modified each
time new page is loaded. If u are talking for previous sites ( i take
it as previously browsed site), their reference would be
there in Back and forward history object list. Webkit does have memory
based cache. To make it persistent becomes client implementation task.
I think there is no point storing DOM/Render Tree/Javascript related
stuff for history items

Thanks & Regards
Niilesh

On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 6:20 AM, Meryl Silverburgh
<silverburgh.meryl at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Does webkit hold pages in memory to allow faster back?
>
> For example, I load 3 different sites one after another:
> 1. www.google.com
> 2. www.yahoo.com
> 3. www.cnn.com
>
> Does it hold the DOM/Render Tree/JavaScript code/data (after the
> source is parsed) of the previous 2 sites?
> If not, does it hold the source files of the external CSS/JS files?
>
> Thank you.
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