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We have failed to design a universal app engine…except for the one that dwarfs every other kind of software development for every kind of device in the world.
by jimbokun 6mo ago
We have failed to design a universal app engine…except for the one that dwarfs every other kind of software development for every kind of device in the world.
- jcelerier 6mo agoCan a single webpage address & use more than 4gb of ram nowadays? I was filling 16gb of ram with a single Ableton live session in 2011.
- rustcleaner 6mo agoHow about a webpage shouldn't ever address & use even 4GB of RAM! :O
- jcelerier 6mo agoBut that's the thing, if I'm doing audio and buying 128GB of ram for the sake of doing music with my sample libraries, and loading hundreds of parallel tracks and being able to scrub through them without lags or audio clicks, I absolutely want to be able to load them to play with them.
- Gigachad 6mo agoVia electron I’m sure it could. In the main browser it’s probably best to cap usage to avoid having buggy pages consume everything. Anything heavy like a video editor you’d rather install as an electron app for deeper system access and such.
- jcelerier 6mo agoBut JS arrays are limited to 4GB. Size is defined to be a 32-bit int.