Comment on Even Apple finally admits that 8GB RAM isn't enough
lastweakness@lemmy.world 1 week agoCPU usage is famously terrible with Electron, which i also pointed out in the comment you’re replying to. But yes, having multiple chromium instances running for each “app” is terrible
Aux@lemmy.world 1 week ago
No, it’s not.
lastweakness@lemmy.world 1 week ago
… Okay?
AnxiousOtter@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Great rebuttal. Really got him with this one.
Aux@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Do you really want me to go into the details of how JIT works in V8 and which Electron APIs allow the apps to idle correctly?
Shadywack@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Yes it is.
“iT’S oNLy a FeW hUnDrED MB oF LiBRAriES and BiNAriES pEr aPp, iT’S oNLy dOuBLe oR tRiPLe tHe RAM, DiSk, anD cpU uSAgE”
Then we have the fucking shit show of 6-8GB of RAM used just by booting the fucking machine. Chromium/Webkit is practically an OS by itself for all the I/O, media handling, and built in libraries upon libraries of shit. Let’s run that whole entire stack for all these electron apps, and then fragment each one independent of each other (hello Discord, who used Electron 12 for WAY too long) then say “bUt iT’s pORtaBLe!”.
Yes, it isn’t just terrible, it’s fucking obnoxiously and horrendously terrible, like we grabbed defeat from the jaws of victory terrible, and moronically insipid. Optimization in the fucking trash can and a fire hydrant in all our fucking assholes, terrible. That’s HOW terrible it actually is, so you’re wrong.
Aux@lemmy.world 1 week ago
RAM usage doesn’t matter in the slightest.