Re:I've spent the last two years building a new email client
by cbhl on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @01:39PM
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I really don't think the problem is Electron, or even JavaScript.
I think the problem is Chrome, which the Electron runtime requires. Each separate Electron app has its own copy of Chromium in memory. (What happened to shared libs?)
I see two ways you can help:
(1) you can try to get memory-usage-reducing fixes into Chromium, or,
(2) you can build an Electron-compatible runtime that uses less memory (maybe by transpiling it into code that runs on a native toolkit, and not having a static copy of that runtime per-app).
I think the problem is Chrome, which the Electron runtime requires. Each separate Electron app has its own copy of Chromium in memory. (What happened to shared libs?)
I see two ways you can help:
(1) you can try to get memory-usage-reducing fixes into Chromium, or,
(2) you can build an Electron-compatible runtime that uses less memory (maybe by transpiling it into code that runs on a native toolkit, and not having a static copy of that runtime per-app).