Re:Myth debunking: WebViews suck, everything should be native
by gaius on Sunday June 12, 2016 @11:14AM
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The battery thing is huge. I'm not a professional GUI developer but I've done quite a bit of GUI work as part of my real job, Motif, Tcl/Tk, PowerPlant, MFC, a range of different technologies over the years. Something that wouldn't have even moved the load average needle on a SPARC 20, 20 years ago, shouldn't be pegging a cpu core on a modern machine and making the fan spin like an aircraft taking off.
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Re:Myth debunking: WebViews suck, everything should be native
by tluyben2 on Sunday June 12, 2016 @03:58PM
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This cannot be said enough. I do not like talking about the past a lot as that is useless but yes: I did make a lot of complex apps natively on unix and windows machines many years ago and recently for fun or symbos: if you make similar apps on current system with web tech the cpu gets a massive hit for things that should not even be moving the needle. And on native tech it doesn't: but on tcl/tk it does not either which is not native.
I know this is the future, but with my job in which I do a lot of embedded software and mobile software next to web stuff, the web stuff really seems to be the cpu and memory killer which in turn drain the battery very fast.
Not sure if there is a solution if the biggest companies in the world cannot prevent their applications from doing that though.
Re:Myth debunking: WebViews suck, everything should be native
by mwcampbell on Sunday June 12, 2016 @04:12PM
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Since you bring up Motif and SPARCstations, I should point out that people also complained about the performance of X GUIs back in the day. [1]
[1]: http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/unix-haters/x-windows/disast...