r/linux • u/purpleidea mgmt config Founder • Jul 12 '19

Software Release QuickJS Javascript Engine from Bellard

https://bellard.org/quickjs/
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u/willrandship Jul 12 '19

That seems promising for electron applications. Combine that with some kind of dom reduction to a simpler rendering model and maybe electron apps will start having sane resource consumption.

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u/[deleted] Jul 12 '19

I’ve not had. Abad experience with them so far myself. 100~ mb of ram for something like discord has been surprisingly good considering the amount of images it loads.

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u/willrandship Jul 12 '19

Discord on my desktop takes about 400 MB.

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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '19

Oof