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Re:PyQt5 Tutorial: Create a Python GUI in 2018 by toyg on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @01:53PM (#18068727)
An order of magnitude lower. I see 40Mb on macos right now for a simple app.
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Re:PyQt5 Tutorial: Create a Python GUI in 2018 by megous on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @02:54PM (#18069310)
I see a simple electron app using 140MB total. Measured by running 'free -m' before and after starting the app and waiting a while for a gc to run.

Measuring memory use is difficult.

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Re:PyQt5 Tutorial: Create a Python GUI in 2018 by TheAceOfHearts on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @03:06PM (#18069428)
FYI, you can open dev tools in electron and manually trigger GC [0].

[0] https://i.imgur.com/JbWArmR.png

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Re:PyQt5 Tutorial: Create a Python GUI in 2018 by megous on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @07:00AM (#18074643)
I'm sure opending dev tools will increase memory use significantly though. So it's a bit self-defeating. :)

Perhaps there's some API to call instead.

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