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0 pointschongli2y ago0 comments

Shouldn't you be doing the opposite then? Keeping the baseline amount so you can know what it's like for people without a large budget and stop patronizing the applications without acceptable footprints in that circumstance?

I'm not a developer of native Mac apps. If I were, I would definitely have a baseline machine for testing.

The Stable Diffusion XL model is ~13GB

That's not a baseline consumer application. See my other reply (re: grandma and little Billy). If you're developing a native Mac app for grandma and little Billy, Apple probably doesn't want you shipping a 13GB model with it. This is an example of the point I'm trying to make: find a way to compress the model so the end user doesn't have to deal with that kind of bloat (or host it in the cloud).

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AnthonyMouse2y ago

> I'm not a developer of native Mac apps. If I were, I would definitely have a baseline machine for testing.

You expect every developer to buy a second Mac? They're all doing what you're doing and paying more for the machine with more memory because other applications need it, and then their application runs fine on that machine so they don't even notice the problem for the people with 8GB.

> That's not a baseline consumer application.

It will be before any of these new machines go out of support.

skydhash2y ago

> You expect every developer to buy a second Mac?

It's very easy to check the memory usage of your project (it's kinda in your face on XCode). If you do a few minutes test or let the app stay open for a few hours and usage has ballooned to a few GBs, that usually means you have a leak somewhere to fix.

AnthonyMouse2y ago

But the developer of exactly the app using all your memory is writing it in Electron from Windows and has never used XCode.

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0 pointschongli2y ago0 comments

I'm not a developer of native Mac apps. If I were, I would definitely have a baseline machine for testing.

The Stable Diffusion XL model is ~13GB

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AnthonyMouse2y ago

> I'm not a developer of native Mac apps. If I were, I would definitely have a baseline machine for testing.

> That's not a baseline consumer application.

It will be before any of these new machines go out of support.

skydhash2y ago

> You expect every developer to buy a second Mac?

AnthonyMouse2y ago

But the developer of exactly the app using all your memory is writing it in Electron from Windows and has never used XCode.

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