I've spent the last two years building a new email client

Re:I've spent the last two years building a new email client by Etheryte on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @06:28AM (#16975592)

Yeah, this is realistic. I wish people would stop perpetuating the myth that "That's just how Electron is". It's perfectly possible to write Electron apps that don't automatically hog half a gig of RAM.

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Re:I've spent the last two years building a new email client by Kliment on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @06:47AM (#16975696)

That's news to me, and people who make electron stuff tell me they can't get it down below a few hundred mb of memory usage. Can you point me to some resources about reducing that?

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Re:I've spent the last two years building a new email client by Siilwyn on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @07:21AM (#16975846)

I'm curious too! I found one interesting article about Electron eating memory with images: http://seenaburns.com/debugging-electron-memory-usage/

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Re:I've spent the last two years building a new email client by rsynnott on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @11:20AM (#16977735)

Are there any examples of Electron apps that don't do that, though? I've never seen one that didn't like to eat at least a few hundred MB, and most of them seem at least somewhat leaky, too.

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