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0 pointsaniforprez4y ago0 comments

I seriously don't understand making blanket statements like this

All this fearmongering made me properly look at and note the memory usage of the native windows app and then the electron app after I upgraded. The new app uses a whopping 50MB more when the desktop app is open and uses 10MB less when it's not

People keep ranting and raving about this with no context and zero research. I'm sick of this especially on HN

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gspr4y ago

It's not about the memory use. It's about the insane complexity.

An old grandma is looking for a little city car to take her to the neighborhood store. Solution: Use an Airbus A380. The fact that the engineers have made the plane weigh only 50 times as much as the city car is great, but it doesn't really change the fact that it's a crazy approach.

valenaut4y ago

I don't have strong feelings about Electron, but 50MB more memory for the same functionality does seem like a lot. If every app I have open on my machine suddenly used 50MB more memory, it would be a noticeable hit.

roustem4y ago

But it is not the same functionality at all. In terms of privacy and security, the older versions do not come close. And we reworked many pain points in 1Password 7 — better lock screen, improved sidebar, new watchtower, item editing, (in)security questions, fully encrypted item icons, item location bar, tag autocompletion, special handling of the scenario where 1Password becomes locked in the middle of the editing session — and I am not even listing 10% of all the improvements here.

aniforprezOP4y ago

Note that that's 50MB more when the 1Password window is open. When it's running in the background it actively uses less memory than it did before. And that effectively means 99% of the time it's running faster than it did

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