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by RussianCow 1397 days ago
It depends on how big your app is. The problem with Electron is that it bundles its own installation of Chromium, so if you have 5 Electron apps, you have 5 instances of Chromium taking up memory. With something like Tauri, the system web view is used, which is likely already loaded into memory, so the marginal memory usage of each additional application is very small.

A big enough application will dwarf Chromium's memory usage with its own, but for smaller apps, the cost of running your own Chromium instance will dominate your app's memory overhead.