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Re:Show HN: Electrino, a featherweight API-compatible altern... by ricardobeat on Thursday May 04, 2017 @05:21PM (#14268947)
Have you tested that? In my experience using a system webview actually consumes more resources than Electron, and is noticeably slower, at least in OSX/WebKit.
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Re:Show HN: Electrino, a featherweight API-compatible altern... by pavlov on Thursday May 04, 2017 @06:40PM (#14269514)
I did do trivial tests. The Electrino "Hello World" launches faster and consumes about 70% less memory than the Electron one.

For complex apps, I imagine the picture can be very different. The use case I see for the Electrino approach is small apps that are constantly loaded. Big productivity-style apps are better served by Electron.

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