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Re:Users don't care about your tech stack by elktown on Friday February 21, 2025 @07:28AM (#43126714)
Only 500MB? Now you're being charitable.
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Re:Users don't care about your tech stack by marcosdumay on Friday February 21, 2025 @08:39AM (#43127273)
Electron adds about 500MB to your memory requirements. If your software uses 2GB like Teams, the rest is on you.
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Re:Users don't care about your tech stack by elktown on Friday February 21, 2025 @08:59AM (#43127488)
Sounds like schooling your even drunker mate 8 pints deep into a weekend bender.
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Re:Users don't care about your tech stack by o11c on Friday February 21, 2025 @05:43PM (#43133976)
Poorly-chosen environments also apply a multiplier to actual application memory.

Pointer-oriented languages as a rule give a 2x memory-size multiplier to everything, though higher is possible depending on how dynamic they are.

I suspect that the DOM and JS runtimes add a significant multiplier to the UI memory cost.

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