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Windows NT on 600MHz machine opens apps instantly. What happened?

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752 points dceddia | 2 comments | 23 Jun 23 14:02 UTC | HN request time: 0.559s | source
1. me551ah ◴[23 Jun 23 14:36 UTC] No.36447368[source]▶
Electron is probably the biggest culprit. There are still a few native apps that I use like mIRC, foobar2000 and they always feel very snappy.
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2. garganzol ◴[23 Jun 23 15:03 UTC] No.36447814[source]▶
Electron feels snappy on modern machines as well. If only it took a bit less RAM than it currently takes to run an app.

I read somewhere that Webkit and specifically Chrome are optimized towards more efficient CPU usage in the expense of a larger RAM use. Probably makes sense in terms of energy consumption but you need more RAM.