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Not by a long shot. Slow network latency also isn't taking up gigabytes of ram either.
by tjoff 4y ago
Not by a long shot. Slow network latency also isn't taking up gigabytes of ram either.
- h0l0cube 4y ago> Not by a long shot If I compare electron apps like Slack/Spotify/VS Code/etc, where all the assets are preloaded and processed, the app runs smooth. No FOUC or glitches as the page changes layout during loading. > Slow network latency also isn't taking up gigabytes of ram either Can't argue with that, given they are 2 different metrics.
- tjoff 4y agoOh god, electron apps have terrible performance. The apps do not run smooth by any metric. Even static pages over the internet is faster than spotify/slack locally.
- h0l0cube 4y agoCan’t say I’ve ever seen them jank. In my experience, compute doesn’t seem to be the limiting factor for Spotify etc., it only ever seems to be waiting for API calls to return. There really isn’t a whole lot of compute going on in a typical front end, and modern browser engines have JIT virtual machines and parallel processing with the final rendering pushed into the GPU. Even the processing power in a low end mobile is not struggling on compute for these applications