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by scaladev 2018 days ago
Yeah, the Silly Valley bubble doesn't realize how the rest of the world lives. In my third world country they're still selling _new_ (straight from the factory, this year's models) laptops with 4 GBs of RAM. Most models still come with 8 GBs of RAM (and most of them cost above of what I make in a month, and I pull a relatively decent paycheck). You get the idea.
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jcelerier 2018 days ago
> In my third world country they're still selling _new_ (straight from the factory, this year's models) laptops with 4 GBs of RAM

I live in France and there are 4GB here too: https://www.ldlc.com/informatique/ordinateur-portable/pc-por...

hell, in one of the biggest online retailers, the second biggest category is 2 gigabytes (number in parentheses is the number of laptop models available with that ram amount)

https://imgur.com/a/LL8H7aP

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lambda_obrien 2018 days ago
If I run more than two "browsers" my laptop slows to a crawl (I am in the USA, but I don't have the money for fancy stuff), so I have to decide to run Firefox (main browser), Chromium (test browser), VSCODE (IDE "browser"), or one of the other 50 "browsers" I have installed. Usually I have to run all of the above 3 when working, so I end up using OS tools to "freeze" the process of whichever "browser" I am not using at the time, but it causes problems.

I would be super happy if I could run several similar engines under one main process, I don't care as much about security concerns when I'm developing my own software, and would not mind some "intraprocess security holes" if I could reduce my memory footprint like that and then turn it off when I want the "security holes" to be closed again.

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thebigspacefuck 2018 days ago
It’s not as bad these days with SSDs
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stjohnswarts 2018 days ago
Actually it is, SSD does help a little bit with swapping for disk I/O if RAM gets full but in general keeping the app in RAM is much much faster than even SSD. Electron absolutely chews up RAM like crazy compared to just about every c++ based GUI I've ever used. I just thought I'd let you know that.
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stef-13013 2016 days ago
Yes, and stuff like pyside2 are pretty cool too (for people who don't like C++)
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