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It's hard to tell, to be fair. We don't know whether a React version of Gmail (equally maintained etc.) would use more or less RAM.
by CapacitorSet 8y ago
It's hard to tell, to be fair. We don't know whether a React version of Gmail (equally maintained etc.) would use more or less RAM.
- tandav 8y agobasic HTML gmail link (fast AF) https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/h/1pq68r75kzvdr/?v%3Dlui https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/h/1pq68r75kzvdr/?v%3Dlui
- chrismorgan 8y agoFastMail uses our in-house framework Overture, which doesn’t use a VDOM, but rather uses computed properties with explicitly-declared dependencies, observers, and things like that. It’s definitely more effort to work in, but the results speak for themselves: it’s markedly faster than anything done in React or Angular or similar, and uses around 11MB of memory.