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Re:The compiler will optimize that away by krapp on Monday May 03, 2021 @05:38AM (#27023142)
>Spotify is slower than Winamp, Slack is slower than IRC, Webmail is slower than my e-mail client, VS Code is slower than Visual C++ 6.0.

All of which are Electron apps, apart from "Webmail" which is, well, what one might call a "distributed Electron app" (a website.)

Maybe, just maybe, Electron is the problem.

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Re:The compiler will optimize that away by jupp0r on Monday May 03, 2021 @06:57PM (#27031983)
Spotify is not an Electron app, they are using Chromium Embedded Framework.
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