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Re:Tauri – Electron alternative written in Rust by hkalbasi on Wednesday January 05, 2022 @08:11AM (#29808427)
Per https://github.com/Fournux/tauri-vs-electron it uses just 20 MB of ram on linux.

Why? I guess because webkit-gtk is less ram hungry than blink.

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Re:Tauri – Electron alternative written in Rust by tuananh on Wednesday January 05, 2022 @08:54AM (#29808890)
any idea why the memory usage difference on windows are very close but significantly different on linux?
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Re:Tauri – Electron alternative written in Rust by hkalbasi on Wednesday January 05, 2022 @09:45AM (#29809550)
WebView2 is chromium edge. This was the reason that I guessed webkit-gtk uses less ram than chromium.
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Re:Tauri – Electron alternative written in Rust by tuananh on Wednesday January 05, 2022 @09:49AM (#29809611)
ah, that makes sense. thanks
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