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Re:Electron considered harmful by majewsky on Thursday November 24, 2016 @03:37PM (#13032609)
Meanwhile my webserver that serves 8 websites (some static sites, some sophisticated web apps) sites at 80 MB used RAM. For everything. You can't make this up.
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Re:Electron considered harmful by jeremiep on Thursday November 24, 2016 @04:45PM (#13032979)
Your web server also doesn't run X11 or any window managers nor any gui apps.
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Re:Electron considered harmful by majewsky on Thursday November 24, 2016 @06:18PM (#13033400)
That's true, but I don't see anything in that list that needs to use multiple hundreds of MB of RAM. To witness, we had GUI apps in 1995. They look a bit nicer these days, but not multiple-100-MB nicer. :)
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Re:Electron considered harmful by jeremiep on Thursday November 24, 2016 @11:54PM (#13034486)
Emacs is far older than 1995 and still eating 250Mb :)
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Re:Electron considered harmful by majewsky on Friday November 25, 2016 @04:17AM (#13035324)
And there was a time when "Emacs" expanded to "eight megabytes and constantly swapping". :)
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