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[โ€“] protogen420@lemmy.blahaj.zone -1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

element is much lighter weight, my god wgat fuck are you even dreaming up about, discord is fucking unresponsive and horrible to use, I do agree that the device verificstion still barely works sometimes, and you can also just use a different a client, as far as web clients go cinny is really good honestly, cinny is fast and responsive it even feels almost native, which compared to garbagecord is a night and day difference in usability beyond DOING ALL OF THIS WHILE USING LESS RESOURCES, for android Schildichat Next is my choice

[โ€“] diaphragmwp@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

element is much lighter weight

Here, the webapps are measured via the very scientific method of Firefox about:processes, doesn't even account Firefox itself which is like 760 megs (decimal MB or MiB? I am not sure) if I were to believe it.

On amd64, loonix with glibc and all that crap, zero memory pressure (assuming I am reading "shared" correctly in htop which I assume to be libraries like glibc and glib):

  • Discord: starts at 800 megs, garbage collects down to 704 to 710-ish (overburned CD size?); turning on/off equicord doesn't affect it much
  • Element: 367 mystery units after clicking around for a while, 341 unfocused
  • Nheko: 362 MiB, 201MiB shared (probably with Firefox, can't close cuz I am typing here rn)
  • Dino: 334MiB, 116 shared (probably with Firefox)
  • Mumble (random server with a long text greeting and nobody in voice): 169MiB, 130MiB shared.
  • random forum with a bunch of emotes and table decorations (for comparison sake): 69 meters (NICE)
  • qwebirc (1 server): 61 megs
  • Weechat (6 servers): 65392 bytes, out of which 33396 shared (with system daemons I am guessing).
  • Toxic: 44648 bytes, out of which 0 are shared. Plus ~90000 for Alacritty (65160 shared when multiple).

lmao