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  • Windows Latest discovered Discord and other Chromium and Electron-based applications with high RAM usage
  • RAM usage spikes from 1GB to 4GB on Discord both in and out of voice chat
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[–] Kynn@jlai.lu 31 points 3 days ago (7 children)

Tauri is the way to go ; so that every app doesn't each embed another web browser that makes for 90% of the file size.

[–] Orygin@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago

Tauri doesn't automatically make apps perform good. Easy and common pitfalls still can make it go to a crawl just like electron.
Yaak is an example of a tauri app that performs horribly, and that can't reach a satisfactory 30fps on modern hardware. The issue is within how tauri interacts with the js world and syncs state.

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[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Way ahead of you Luddites

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https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/ukwjwa/anyone_remember_this_scam/

first link died for some reason, probably not enough RAM

[–] cryptix@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

And the Apollo was launched with 4KB of ram.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

4kb of RAM and an office packed with hundreds of engineers using slide rules, sure.

[–] squaresinger@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

They used Cloud Computation and AI ("Actually Interns") way before it was cool.

[–] paraphrand@lemmy.world 16 points 3 days ago

Native apps are so much better, on every platform.

The JavaScript must flow….

[–] TipsyMcGee@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 3 days ago

I have an M1 Macbook Air with 8 gb of ram, it performs great for everything I want to do with it – except for the fact that a ”few” active browser tabs are enough to bring the memory pressure to the pain point. Editing HD video? Reasonably snappy for an old, base spec laptop. Browsing a news site? Potato.

[–] Lightsong@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago (4 children)

I have couple of old 8 gb sticks from my old 960 GPU pc. Is there any way for me to stick it onto my new pc and have only certain app use it and nothing else?

[–] towerful@programming.dev 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Only for multi CPU mobos (and that would be pinning a thread to a CPU/core with NUMA enabled where a task accessed local ram instead of all system ram). Even then, I think all ram would run at the lowest frequency.
I've never mixed CPUs and RAM speeds. I've only ever worked on systems with matching CPUs and ram modules.

I think the hardware cost and software complexity to achieve this is beyond the cost of "more ram" or "faster storage (for faster swap)"

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[–] Xenny@lemmy.world 13 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Meanwhile, on my Linux system I use about 20% of my ram idling around and it doesn't really budge. I've only got 16gb

[–] neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 3 days ago

I left windows just 2 months ago to use a MacBook for work.

In both computers I had 16gb of ram.

Windows usage was significantly higher in regard to ram usage.

I use today Linux is way more efficient, but after seeing similar efficiency with Mac, I’m changing my language to say Windows is extremely inefficient.

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