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| ▲ | sombragris 36 minutes ago | parent | next [-] |
| No, no and no. Last year I paid money to upgrade my laptop's RAM from 16 to 32 GB. I didn't pay it so apps could just be more bloated without offering any significant benefit. Developers should respect and be efficient using hardware resources. There are no excuses for that. |
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| ▲ | reenorap 28 minutes ago | parent [-] | | From CS101 it’s called virtual memory. Things get swapped in and out of memory when they need to. An extra 200MB of memory when Chrome takes gigabytes of memory is a petty thing to complain about. How much do you want to bet you don’t even use windows media player? It’s fake outrage and if you care that much use VLC. |
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| ▲ | lynndotpy an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| It does not matter how well or poorly Chrome mismanages memory, 400MB is still 400MB. If that 400MB is 10% of the free RAM after the share the OS takes, then that is a hefty toll. And the regular updates Windows 11 users are getting are famously not providing value, but taking value away. Case in point right here is the new media player. |
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| ▲ | ruszki 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| There are 100s of processes running on my Windows without starting anything explicitly. They are using more than 10 gb of RAM. I am already feeling the consequences of this sloppiness. Especially that my IDE/compiler/emulator easily use 20+ GB. My 32 GB of memory is not enough somehow… |
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| ▲ | sgarland 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| IME, there is a negative correlation “justifies increased memory consumption by citing DX” and “ships code with fewer critical issues.” |
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| ▲ | StilesCrisis an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| A single Chrome tab does not use gigabytes. In fact, this app IS a Chrome tab! It's web based, so it's using Edge, which is just Chrome in a trenchcoat. |
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| ▲ | SupLockDef 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| There is no nuance in 400%... |
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| ▲ | srdjanr 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | Of course there is. If it increased from 1MB to 4MB, that would definitely be insignificant |
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| ▲ | pdhborges 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| How come I have never seen this tradeoff work in practice? |
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| ▲ | t-writescode 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | You see it all the time in Slack, Discord and so on. Isn’t VS Code an Electron app? Or just its predecessor? |
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| ▲ | nokeya an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| The problem is that it does not. At all. |
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