Re:Psst: Fast Spotify client with native GUI, without Electr...
by lostmsu on Monday August 16, 2021 @09:43PM
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According to this: https://forums.overclockers.com.au/threads/winamp-memory-usa...
Winamp 2.72 only used about 8 megs of RAM.
Re:Psst: Fast Spotify client with native GUI, without Electr...
by dotancohen on Monday August 16, 2021 @11:43PM
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Eight Megs And Counting.
Wow, eight megs was once so much memory that we would laugh about applications that even approached it.
Re:Psst: Fast Spotify client with native GUI, without Electr...
by TchoBeer on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @09:27AM
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It's really crazy how quickly things have gotten bigger. I remember not too long ago my mid-high power computer had 1Gb of RAM, nowadays that would be laughably small.
Re:Psst: Fast Spotify client with native GUI, without Electr...
by jpochyla on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @05:07AM
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Hi, I'm glad you like it! The performance is not _that_ good at the moment, mostly because of superfluous paints, but it's something I'd like to focus on (as it's one of the primary objectives).
Re:Psst: Fast Spotify client with native GUI, without Electr...
by rvz on Monday August 16, 2021 @10:55PM
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So Electron is the problem. It gets worse if you have lots of tabs open in Chrome + running other electron apps as well. A visible and obvious improvement when compared with a native app.
Also, Electron apps do not scale and it wastes CPU time, eats RAM up and fills up HDD space. On laptops, it drains the battery faster.
A quadruple negative to the user.
Re:Psst: Fast Spotify client with native GUI, without Electr...
by userbinator on Monday August 16, 2021 @10:58PM
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The second one should be sorted by name to show that there are actually multiple spotify processes. (There's another one near the bottom of the list.)
Re:Psst: Fast Spotify client with native GUI, without Electr...
by xyst on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @12:10AM
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I wonder what the footprint will look like once the author writes in all of the missing features
It's so damned efficient it barely registers in my CPU monitor. Check out the memory utilization too!
https://i.imgur.com/Fa3Dnnb.png
Now compare it with the semi-official Spotify client:
https://i.imgur.com/nNWFIj1.png