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Does download size necessarily mean more system ram usage?

I agree on page weight, but somehow I'm more sympathetic to downloading apps, perhaps because it's just downloading in the background, rather than me waiting to read the content.

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From what I understand, each instance of an electron app essentially needs its own copy of the electron framework to work (which includes a web renderer, and javascript engine). So we're talking at least 50MB per instance, for applications which may have been 10MB if written in a native language. When you start running many applications, it can certainly add up. Users do notice this kind of stuff, they are just too adaptive to bad user experiences.

As for downloads, I remember using dialup and only getting one 1MB file per hour. It would take a lot of patience to even download a 10MB app on that. I don't tend to leave my computer on downloading overnight these days though, and I 'only' get 1MB/s (dslreports.com says I'm "faster download than 60% on DSL in australia").

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