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See the spotify client, popcorn time, visual studio code. these are javascript. They run great.

• _prototype_ 10y ago
  Also the Slack web client
• rbanffy 10y ago
  Have you checked how much memory they use? I know we have 8-core laptops with 16 gigs of RAM, but, still, it's excessive.
  • segmondy 10y ago
    Don't have an 8 core, or 16 gigs of ram. I'm talking about my desktop. I have a 4 core i5 from 2013. Spotify has 173M in res. Visual studio code with 10 files open has 99M in res. I have firefox open with about 125 tabs open, 6 terminal windows, 2 pdf files open, VLC open but not playing, IRC in about 15 channels. Load average is 0.60. Memory load across all CPU's about 10%. 8gigs used out of 12gigs of ram. With firefox using 5.1 gigs.
  • freyr 10y ago
    Any idea why the memory usage is so high? Is it related to the Electron/Chromium platform, or bad application design?
    • rbanffy 10y ago
      Would need to check, but my bet is caching of partially rendered HTML as bitmaps, as well as a full JavaScript JIT environment. It's just a high footprint enironment.