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Re:JavaScript Conquered the Web, Now It’s Taking Over the De... by freyr on Monday September 12, 2016 @05:58PM (#12484040)
Any idea why the memory usage is so high? Is it related to the Electron/Chromium platform, or bad application design?
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Re:JavaScript Conquered the Web, Now It’s Taking Over the De... by rbanffy on Tuesday September 13, 2016 @04:11AM (#12486371)
Would need to check, but my bet is caching of partially rendered HTML as bitmaps, as well as a full JavaScript JIT environment.

It's just a high footprint enironment.

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