alt Hacker NewsPerhaps we'll have to start optimizing software for performance and RAM usage again.
I look at MS Teams currently using 1.5GB of RAM doing nothing.
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jjcm • yesterday at 9:58 PM
Likewise, Slack. Currently at 2.3GB.
I'm very curious if this AI wave will actually lead to more native apps being made, since the barrier to doing so will be lower.
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alliao • yesterday at 8:51 PM
now that's a word i haven't heard in a while...optimising
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boznz • yesterday at 11:54 PM
Old codger here, happy to rewrite any of your bloated software to run on a twenty year old PC at reasonable rates..
UltraSane • yesterday at 10:01 PM
PCIe 5.0 NVMe drives used as page cache can help a lot.
650REDHAIR • yesterday at 8:34 PM
I truly hate how bloated and inefficient MS/Windows is.
My hope is that with the growing adoption of Linux that MS takes note...
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RIP electron apps and PWAs. Need to go native, as chromium based stuff is so memory hungry. PWAs on Safari use way less memory, but PWA support in Safari is not great.