Actually, Electron (and most other web browsers) on the Mac OS/X and iOS use IOSurface to share zero-copy textures in GPU memory between the render and browser processes. Android and Windows (I presume, but don't know name of the API, probably part of DirectX) have similar techniques.

It's like shared memory, but for texture memory in the GPU between separate heavy weight processes. Since simply sharing main memory between processes wouldn't be nearly as efficient, requiring frequent uploading and downloading textures to and from the GPU.

Mac OS/X and iOS IOSurface:

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/iosurface?language...

http://neugierig.org/software/chromium/notes/2010/08/mac-acc...

https://github.com/SimHacker/UnityJS/blob/master/notes/IOSur...

Android SurfaceTexture and GL_TEXTURE_EXTERNAL_OES:

https://developer.android.com/reference/android/graphics/Sur...

https://www.khronos.org/registry/OpenGL/extensions/OES/OES_E...

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1J0fkaGS9Gseczw3wJNXvo_r-...

https://github.com/SimHacker/UnityJS/blob/master/notes/ZeroC...

https://github.com/SimHacker/UnityJS/blob/master/notes/Surfa...