Re:Digital Audio Workstation Front End Development Struggles
by jupp0r on Tuesday May 16, 2023 @08:25PM
(#35969702)
Is latency of loading the app really relevant in the digital audio workstation use case? (no). As long as you get good frame rates while the GUI is running and latency is reasonably low, startup performance is not that important.
Re:Digital Audio Workstation Front End Development Struggles
by lelanthran on Wednesday May 17, 2023 @01:14AM
(#35971506)
I was responding to this:
> but the premise that "web is slow" has been disproven so many times already
So, yeah, startup duration absolutely counts.
More to the point, even while using (for example) slack you still see +500ms latencies while doing things like typing
Native chat apps had instant (sub 10ms) responses.
But, you made the claim that web being slow has been disproven, which really is news to me, so I want to see benchmarks you are referring to.
That's news to me. Do you have a link comparing local non-electron apps with local electron apps?
I mean, a gui chat app I wrote a while back using libpurple(or something with that name, could have been libpigeon), without even trying, started up and loaded all cached chats faster than I could measure at the time (under 10ms).
None of the current electron-based chat apps I use right now take less than 5s even on hardware (M1 MB) that is literally 15 years ahead.