<![CDATA[Google Chrome Team: We are disabling RTTI in our builds because it adds 10-20% to the size of the final binary and that overhead is too much.]]>Google Chrome Team: We are disabling RTTI in our builds because it adds 10-20% to the size of the final binary and that overhead is too much. Download times and installed disk space are really important.

Also the Google Chrome Team: We’re going to bundle an LLM with the install. Sure, it’s ten times the size of the whole of the rest of the browser, but I’m sure it’s fine.

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I really wish Mozilla would stop calling things like this ‘AI’ because it causes exactly the confusion that you’re addressing.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/david_chisnall/statuses/116532159591448517https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/david_chisnall/statuses/116532159591448517Thu, 07 May 2026 07:40:42 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Google Chrome Team: We are disabling RTTI in our builds because it adds 10-20% to the size of the final binary and that overhead is too much. on Thu, 07 May 2026 07:36:38 GMT]]>@mkljczk it does, it does: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/website-translation#w_how-do-i-enable-the-translation-panel

@david_chisnall

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://metalhead.club/users/mariusor/statuses/116532143587787863https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://metalhead.club/users/mariusor/statuses/116532143587787863Thu, 07 May 2026 07:36:38 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Google Chrome Team: We are disabling RTTI in our builds because it adds 10-20% to the size of the final binary and that overhead is too much. on Thu, 07 May 2026 07:36:06 GMT]]>@david_chisnall ah, I see, I missed that somehow, but it makes total sense.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://metalhead.club/users/mariusor/statuses/116532141544263502https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://metalhead.club/users/mariusor/statuses/116532141544263502Thu, 07 May 2026 07:36:06 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Google Chrome Team: We are disabling RTTI in our builds because it adds 10-20% to the size of the final binary and that overhead is too much. on Thu, 07 May 2026 07:31:16 GMT]]>@mariusor

I think the Firefox translation models are downloaded on demand, the first time you request on-device translation from a specific language. Each language pair is about 60 MiB.

These are an amazing piece of engineering. They’re designed so that they can be trained on a single (powerful) desktop and they’re trained from corpora that are specifically built (and licensed) for improving machine translation.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/david_chisnall/statuses/116532122539831886https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/david_chisnall/statuses/116532122539831886Thu, 07 May 2026 07:31:16 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Google Chrome Team: We are disabling RTTI in our builds because it adds 10-20% to the size of the final binary and that overhead is too much. on Thu, 07 May 2026 07:27:00 GMT]]>@david_chisnall as far as I remember Firefox also bundles an LLM with the install (useful at least for in browser translations) but it still manages to keep the size reasonable...

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://metalhead.club/users/mariusor/statuses/116532105757437270https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://metalhead.club/users/mariusor/statuses/116532105757437270Thu, 07 May 2026 07:27:00 GMT