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Interesting. I knew it was basically a custom browser, but jeez, I had no idea how bad.
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I recall reading an article roughly 10 years ago where the guru from some tech company (Microsoft, Apple, Google, Adobe, Oracle... - I don't remember) made the argument that being ultra efficient with RAM use was foolish - after all having a bunch of unused RAM isn't helping anything. His advice was use as much as you want and let the OS manage it.
Today we see the result of said advice... 
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10 news for every delete - that's the way to go. 
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Mike Mullikin wrote: Today we see the result of said advice..
It really does seem that way. All I can think is these apps load everything into memory as a distinct object and then never let it go. It's just crazy -- no lazy loading, no setting things to null after done with use. Just wanton memory eating with no thought.
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raddevus wrote: no lazy loading
That's unfortunate naming, for once. Loading everything at once IS the lazy way of achieving it. 
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surely the OS can handle that ...oh wait, it's winduds.
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If you plan to run multiple OSes, you're advised to pack a lot of RAM, whichever your host OS is. Because the guest OS (Chrome) will not be appeased by single digits gigs of RAM.
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Free the mallocs!
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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Free the Guildford Four! The Birmingham Six! The Renault Five!
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if you open Task Manager, and watch Postman's memory usage, you can actually see it adding about 0.1 MB/sec, just sitting there, doing nothing.
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Chris Losinger wrote: just sitting there, doing nothing.
Except leaking memory! 
Ironic, I got this email from Postman last week basically tooting their horn about how great they are, how much their customer base has grown, etc. Sad, because their UI sucks, and their app sucks too IMHO.
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Marc Clifton wrote: I got this email from Postman last week basically tooting their horn about how great they are,
It's great because it stands alone.
There is Fiddler - Free Web Debugging Proxy - Telerik[^] too but it isn't much better (UI or memory leakage).
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Marc Clifton wrote: consume 1/2 Gig of RAM
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Slack App? Why not use the browser?
Oh you've covered Chrome!
I got nothing to say.
Okay wait, I got one important thing to say- Postman is Sh*t.
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Marc Clifton wrote: F***ing insane.
Agreed!!
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There is a resistance however. One of my workmates positively rejects C++ strings because they could be a 'waste of memory' with respect to C arrays of characters.
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640K is enough for anyone!
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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"I understand that reference, sir". I think Adobe or Norton should get it engraved on their front door.
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I think that everyone who works in C#, Java, and the other offending languages should be sent to boot camp for a few weeks, to learn C.
A few hundred thousand malloc statements later, they'll maybe understand what a bloody mess they're making and relying on microsoft to handle for them!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Marc Clifton wrote: now it uses a meager 2GB.
That's because you restarted the background logging of your activities, navigation, music listening,... by closing the browser.
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Apparently, their latest and "greatest" (yeah, just kidding, Slack sucks big time) takes a bit less memory (roughly 350Mb).
Still, it's pathetic - and for a messaging app, the only thing I love about it is the ability to scroll using PgUp/PgDn while in the "Message" editbox - which sadly, Skype doesn't have even now.
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John
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Marc Clifton wrote: What in gods green earth would require Slack to consume 1/2 Gig of RAM?
Marc Clifton wrote: And don't even get me started on Chrome.
Slack is Chrome... At least, it's built as a Javascript app on Electron, which uses Chromium as its display engine...
Java, Basic, who cares - it's all a bunch of tree-hugging hippy cr*p
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Stuart Dootson wrote:
Slack is Chrome... At least, it's built as a Javascript app on Electron, which uses Chromium as its display engine...
And therein lies the problem.
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