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by pikzen 3317 days ago
>Atom (electron)

50% CPU by staying idle.

>Discord (electron)

Does better, only uses one full core, 25% CPU!

> Spotify (electron-like)

Actually one that doesn't decide my cores belong to it, thankfully.

>webkit derivatives

Steam notwithstanding because only parts of it are webkit and is uses CEF, these are not wrappers around chrome repurposed.

>I run all of this on a 2016 Retina MacBook. The 8GB RAM, 1.2GHz dual core Intel M5, passively cooled ultrabook.

It's almost as if you were running on the same hardware as these people develop it on and care about when they dirnk their lattes in a Starbucks.