Loading an entire browser for a UI does kind of suck. There was a blog post that went on HN a few months ago but didn't seem to make the front page, wherein the author determined that forcing Electron to dump image cache junk lowers the memory usage substantially.Ĭould Electron & co do better? For sure. It's like when you pull up a StackOverflow answer for 'how can I judge how much memory usage my process has?', and the top voted answer is some bash script to determine peak ps, when every other answer tries to explain that that's only one measure of memory and isn't even totally accurate.įurthermore, that nice feature of most modern apps where you're scrolling up rapidly and an image is nice and ready to present? Images are big, especially when we all use retina displays. The operating system will cull it from other places when it needs it even a native Cocoa app will not dump memory you're done with until the system decides it needs it for something else, because on the off-chance your app ends up needing it again, it's already allocated.

Modern RAM doesn't work the way people who complain about Slack/et al think it does.

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