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   David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*) (david_chisnall@infosec.exchange)'s status on Friday, 08-May-2026 20:46:48 JST David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)

   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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     David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*) (david_chisnall@infosec.exchange)'s status on Friday, 08-May-2026 20:47:36 JST David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)

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     • marius

     @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.

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     marius (mariusor@metalhead.club)'s status on Friday, 08-May-2026 20:47:37 JST marius

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     @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...

     Rich Felker repeated this.