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Comment by elktown

1 day ago

Only 500MB? Now you're being charitable.

Electron adds about 500MB to your memory requirements. If your software uses 2GB like Teams, the rest is on you.

  • 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.

  • Sounds like schooling your even drunker mate 8 pints deep into a weekend bender.