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Re:Proton Native – React Native for the desktop by ben_jones on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @04:04PM (#16980668)
I'd love to see electron "suddenly" start reducing memory footprint as soon as a competitor starts gaining market share
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Re:Proton Native – React Native for the desktop by Klonoar on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @04:43PM (#16980975)
Actually, earlier today Electron 2.0.0 dropped and includes an `affinity` option, which throws everything under one process. Supposed to help with memory/resource usage.
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Re:Proton Native – React Native for the desktop by roberttod on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @05:06PM (#16981159)
Wow, nice! Didn't think there was much room to improve given the dependency on Chrome.
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Re:Proton Native – React Native for the desktop by jakelazaroff on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @06:03PM (#16981548)
According to [the PR that introduced this to Electron](https://github.com/electron/electron/pull/11501), it just takes advantage of a similar feature in Chromium.
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Re:Proton Native – React Native for the desktop by roberttod on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @04:25PM (#16980842)
I think it'll be hard because they depend on Chromium for performance, which is practically out of their hands and the project is already very streamlined for what it's doing. But Electron comes with a different set of tools i.e. you have the full browser API and renderer at your disposal.
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