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Is 800Mb acceptable for a chat app?

Who is our? Most systems do not have 32gb of RAM. My grandma isn't going to be writing emails on a MBP with maxed out specs, neither will a majority of people have more than 4 or 8GB of RAM.

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You're shifting the goalposts. Original text contained mention of 650MB Slack making your 16GB system "grind to a halt".

Ripcord is currently running in 23.3MB on my machine

When we pay less than $10/gb for ram and our systems have 32 gb and more, I do consider it acceptable. As long as the speed of development and feature implementation is sufficiently improved of course.

My system doesn't have 32GB RAM, and I really don't want that because my users don't have 32GB of RAM, they have 4GB. I don't want to get in the habit of just throwing away RAM because some target devices may have much less available, and I may want to port to such limited devices (phones, Raspberry Pi, small VPS instances, etc) where RAM is hard to come by or expensive.

An app's resource use should just justified by what the app does. It's really telling when a 3D game engine uses about the same resources as an electron app.

Is all 800mb resident, and just for that app? On osx people often just look a the 'Memory' column in activity monitor, which says slack + the slack helpers are using 1.4GB of memory (OMG Electron sucks!) - but it is using 633MB of real memory. So not great if you are used to bitchx or something. But not terrible - half of what it initially looks like. Memory management is complicated.

No.

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