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Re:Unanswered user makes question their MS thesis and answer... by kristianp on Sunday January 03, 2021 @04:18PM (#25625336)
The answer compares resizing performance of their application to spotify's Electron app, which has a chrome browser doing the rendering. Not a very fair comparison. I assume their thesis doesn't do that.
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Re:Unanswered user makes question their MS thesis and answer... by bestest on Sunday January 03, 2021 @05:47PM (#25625971)
As far as I understand Spotify does not use Electron, it uses the Chromium Embedded Framework.
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Re:Unanswered user makes question their MS thesis and answer... by nefitty on Monday January 04, 2021 @03:22AM (#25628852)
You are correct: https://www.spotify.com/us/opensource/
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Re:Unanswered user makes question their MS thesis and answer... by pulp_user on Monday January 04, 2021 @05:05PM (#25638896)
(OP here) I adressed that caveat in the late part of the answer. I also noted that I don't even think the performance difference is attributable to immediate vs retained mode. This was just a comparison agains existing applications.

As far as I am concerned though, it is pretty irrelevant to the user if an application is slow because the developer made a mistake, or because they wanted it that way.

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Re:Unanswered user makes question their MS thesis and answer... by krageon on Monday January 04, 2021 @06:39AM (#25630062)
It's fair because they're both GUIs. It shouldn't have to be anyone's problem that a set of developers chose to pack a whole browser inside of their user interface.
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Re:Unanswered user makes question their MS thesis and answer... by bmm6o on Monday January 04, 2021 @12:18PM (#25634492)
If the question is about comparing the performance of immediate mode and retained mode, the comparison should be between two otherwise-similar applications. There are a lot of applications that are faster than Spotify, but that says more about Spotify than about those applications.
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