| ▲ | Shorel 5 hours ago | |
Are you defending Electron apps? The audacity :) Bruno consumes 300MB in RAM. The alternative I am using consumes 25 MB and it is much faster. The difference is not because some uncompressed PNG or some fonts, it's the Electron architecture that is wasteful, by design. | ||
| ▲ | TheRealPomax an hour ago | parent [-] | |
First off, RAM is not app size, and second, the point of having RAM is literally so it's there to be used. Sure, Chrome is absolute nonsense, but Electron is not Chrome, and an Electron app using 300 MB in memory where data needs to be uncompressed and directly accessible when your computer (including your phone) has gigabytes of the stuff to work with is just... irrelevant? That's pretty much pretending there's a problem for the sake of wanting a problem. And yes, not using electron will use less memory, which is an excellent reason to go "we're not using Electron". But there's a difference between "We want to use as little memory as possible" and "300MB of RAM on a system with 8 gigabytes of the stuff is a problem". The first is an excellent call. The second is nonsense =) | ||