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		pritambaral on Oct 1, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Firefox fixes save gigabytes of memory on image-he... I agree it is tricky. But not as bad as curing cancer, by far. Practically, cancer cannot be cured even by multiples of all the effort than went into those two bugs.

Ygg2 on Oct 1, 2013 [–]

Stretching the analogy a bit too much? The crux of point was - simple ideas can become excruciatingly complex to impossible solutions in practice.

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