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It's still extremely heavy compared to any native Mac app. On my M1 machine, Slack (plus it's 4 separate helper processes) is currently using a total of 679MB o
by IMcD23 5y ago
It's still extremely heavy compared to any native Mac app. On my M1 machine, Slack (plus it's 4 separate helper processes) is currently using a total of 679MB of RAM. The Mail app, in comparison, is using 147MB.
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- Isthatablackgsd 5y agoIt is not fair to make that comparison. Mail app is first-party app made by Apple. They will optimize it as much as possible and it only for macOS. Slack is a third-party app, run inside Electron which is cross-platform. A cross-platform that have to ensure that every platform that Slack have to account for OSes quirks. Mail app (email application) and Slack (instant messaging application) are entirely different beasts, they are not the same thing. I'm glad that Slack only uses 600± MB of memory. Few years ago, it usually uses more than that, about 1.5 - 2 GB in my experience. Now I checked my Slack (and its services) combined memory usage is 400± MB.
- smcleod 5y agoFrom an end user perspective I think it's absolutely fair to make that comparison. Electron is a bag of garbage for the end user / machine. Native apps (mail or otherwise) perform, feel, look better than electron apps while using far less resources including power with less crashes in my and my coworkers experience.