[slackingoff2017]

Can we just compile js to bytecode? It's silly making huge apps in a language that has to be parsed and compiled on the fly

[pritambaral]

That would reduce largely the JavaScript runtime size, but not the rendering engine and all the vendored third-party libraries.

On my Arch Linux installation, the node.js package takes about 18.45 MiB on disk. While I'd be glad if the various multiple electron runtimes slimmed down by 10-15 MiB, it wouldn't be much.

[astrodust]

Get to work on a Webassembly compiler and your wish might be granted.

http://webassembly.org

[spiderfarmer]

The Tanks demo makes my CPU hurt (15" rMBP, Firefox).

Why is WebGL still so heavy on the CPU?

[josh64]

It works fine on my 2011 15" macbook pro with Firefox 54.0b4. I wonder if it is the high retina resolution thats the problem for you?

[spiderfarmer]

It might be because the macbook is also driving a 4k display at the same time.

[CyberDildonics]

It takes up about 2 percent of my 7 year old cpu in chrome. It is also compiled from Unity, so was not made from C++ directly.

[slackingoff2017]

Apple's OpenGl support is crap.

[_pmf_]

> Why is WebGL still so heavy on the CPU?

Well, how else are we supposed to get nice side channel / timing attacks?