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martinjcyesterday at 8:07 PM1 replyview on HN

Fully agree with you. I am a frontend developer. On my work machine spotify uses maybe 300mb of memory, but on my home pc with opensuse? Image what it uses... 1.1GB.. The same as my brave browser with 4 tabs open. What is going on.


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simondotauyesterday at 9:57 PM

Because so much modern software is a web browser. The application bundles in its own version of Chromium.

Built natively, the same app could use an order of magnitude less memory, while being functionally identical.