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Oh 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 loc

• h0l0cube 4y ago
  Can’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