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Electron blows my mind every time I open Activity Monitor. How on the Earth does Spotify manage to use 2GB RAM and 48 threads for a music player?!
by tdsamardzhiev 6y ago
Electron blows my mind every time I open Activity Monitor. How on the Earth does Spotify manage to use 2GB RAM and 48 threads for a music player?!
- vially 6y agoSpotify is using the Chromium Embedded Framework (CEF) [1] which is similar to Electron in the sense that they are both based on Chromium but it's not quite the same thing. [1] - https://community.spotify.com/t5/Closed-Ideas/Revert-to-native-app-or-at-least-provide-an-option-for-one/idi-p/336136 https://community.spotify.com/t5/Closed-Ideas/Revert-to-nati...
- kergonath 6y agoStill rubbish, though.
- Shadonototro 6y agoit's the typical management that is computer illeterate and push useless tech to everyone.. the spotify devs are quite capable, look at this ImGui port of the Spotify client: https://twitter.com/rogueops/status/1243269640815509504 https://twitter.com/rogueops/status/1243269640815509504