Bank robbers usually escape in cars so maybe we should ban automobiles to cut down on the number of bank robberies! Its' the same logic.
To be fair, the automobiles have 15 days to comply with publishing who is in the car and coordinates of all travel.
I have not analyzed Gmail's code, so I am not, with confidence, to state that Gmail is increasing memory usage to cache data.
However, I have not noticed any, significant or insignificant, performance boost from Gmail at 300% memory usage at +4 hours versus Gmail at 100% memory usage at +0.25 hours. I am currently attempting to debug my issue by disabling individual labs, and comparing memory usage results after a significant time has passed with the Gmail tab open. This is by no means a proper scientific study, but I do have hope that the leaker(s) will be identified.
What happened to Winamp 4?
You're not imagining things. Yes, we skipped a version number for the following reasons:
"Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love." -- Albert Einstein