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larger addresses. The exact overhead will depend on how much of the 10 Gigabytes is simple data and how much is object-like and dense with references, but a figure of 40% is not implausible, for a total of 14 Gigabytes required. This is, of course, well within the capabilities of a 64-bit address space. However, the browser will generally exhibit worse locality and make worse use of the computer's memory caches within the computer, assuming equal resources with the alternatives.
* If the web browser is running on a computer with 32-bit

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