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Re:Electron is flash for the desktop (2016) by RandomBookmarks on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @12:41PM (#14089811)
You need to compare apples to apples:

The right benchmark for VSCode is not Visual Studio, but Notepad++ (5.9MB on my system right now).

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Re:Electron is flash for the desktop (2016) by user5994461 on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @02:10PM (#14090809)
The right benchmark for notepad++ is not visual studio. It's notepad2.

Notepad2 = 1792 kB.

P.S. Pay attention, this is kilobytes, not bytes :D

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Re:Electron is flash for the desktop (2016) by Klathmon on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @03:28PM (#14091556)
But it's impossible to do a real apples-to-apples comparison, because I use Atom more like an IDE than I ever did with notepad++, and Atom has magnitudes more features for me than notepad++ ever did and most likely ever will.

I don't care about the difference of 175mb of ram between the 2 as one of them (atom) is infinitely more useful for me than the other (notepad++)

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