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The answer compares resizing performance of their application to spotify's Electron app, which has a chrome browser doing the rendering. Not a very fair compar

The answer compares resizing performance of their application to spotify's Electron app, which has a chrome browser doing the rendering. Not a very fair comparison. I assume their thesis doesn't do that.

bestest 6y ago
As far as I understand Spotify does not use Electron, it uses the Chromium Embedded Framework.
- nefitty 6y ago
  You are correct: https://www.spotify.com/us/opensource/ https://www.spotify.com/us/opensource/
krageon 6y ago
It's fair because they're both GUIs. It shouldn't have to be anyone's problem that a set of developers chose to pack a whole browser inside of their user interface.
- bmm6o 6y ago
  If the question is about comparing the performance of immediate mode and retained mode, the comparison should be between two otherwise-similar applications. There are a lot of applications that are faster than Spotify, but that says more about Spotify than about those applications.
pulp_user 6y ago
(OP here) I adressed that caveat in the late part of the answer. I also noted that I don't even think the performance difference is attributable to immediate vs retained mode. This was just a comparison agains existing applications. As far as I am concerned though, it is pretty irrelevant to the user if an application is slow because the developer made a mistake, or because they wanted it that way.