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Are there any of those left? The popular VMs for Java, Javascript and dotnet are all very mature heavily tuned designs.

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My benchmark:

1) .net app, one text field, one button; private bytes 22mb, working set 27mb

2) native app, two text fields, three buttons; private bytes 1.2mb, working set 7.3mb

3) electron, about:blank, 1.2GiB

electron, about:blank, 90mb

Just tested

Seconded, the only 1.2 GB electron app I’ve made had a ~500MB ML model’s weights embedded in it

That's better than the GTK4 hello world I tried out last year.

GTK4 is 98 MB RSS on Linux. Or just 24 MB for GTK3.

example-0.c (fits both GTK3 and GTK4) from https://docs.gtk.org/gtk4/getting_started.html

Exactly. Though I was seeing 130 MB PSS when I did the same experiment last year.

Not sure if it had something to do with my env (NixOS), but either way it was a turn off since I see 20-30 MB with GTK3 which is about the size of my full-featured macOS AppKit apps.

They're heavily tuned but I think having the generational hypothesis and copying longer-lived objects is still standard? As is allowing a fair amount of garbage to accumulate to increase throughput and reduce copying at the cost of memory footprint?

Posting instead of researching in hopes someone smarter can chime in, because I'm lazy.

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