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Re:Why I Still Use Vim by oliwarner on Thursday January 04, 2018 @10:00AM (#16070719)
While I understand your shared-memory argument, Electron in this example, is using twice what Firefox is using for 3 webapps and another dozen tabs.
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Re:Why I Still Use Vim by roryisok on Thursday January 04, 2018 @10:17AM (#16070892)
Three Web apps and 12 tabs might not be the equivalent of that one app in Electron, if it's a heavy one. If a Chrome browser instance running Slack uses less RAM than the Slack Electron app does, __then__ we can say Electron uses more RAM than it should.

I'm not saying it does or doesn't, and I'm not defending it, I just think we need to be a little more fair with our comparisons

I did a comparison a while back (though I'd hardly call it scientific). I built a basic "hello world" Electron app, which consumed 69MB of RAM on Windows 10. When I opened the html file of that app in Chrome it took 82MB.

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