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I'd love to see electron "suddenly" start reducing memory footprint as soon as a competitor starts gaining market share


Actually, earlier today Electron 2.0.0 dropped and includes an `affinity` option, which throws everything under one process. Supposed to help with memory/resource usage.


Wow, nice! Didn't think there was much room to improve given the dependency on Chrome.


According to [the PR that introduced this to Electron](https://github.com/electron/electron/pull/11501), it just takes advantage of a similar feature in Chromium.


I think it'll be hard because they depend on Chromium for performance, which is practically out of their hands and the project is already very streamlined for what it's doing. But Electron comes with a different set of tools i.e. you have the full browser API and renderer at your disposal.




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