Re:Why I Still Use Vim
by roryisok on Thursday January 04, 2018 @10:17AM
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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.
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.