As someone who produces an Electron-based app, I was curious what my energy use was as reported by Activity Monitor.
Avg Energy Impact:
- 14.08 Google Chrome
- 3.01 Docker (for Mac)
- 2.55 Sublime Text
- 2.04 Slack
- 2.03 Terminal
- 0.28 Mail
- 0.20 My Electron app (which hasn't been open all day, so this number is definitely wrong)
Some of those surprise me.
Those who complain about Electron being a hog are right. But it's not like there's nothing that can be done about it. I'm sure there are optimizations that could be made to reduce resource usage. Firefox recently improved memory usage. With enough demand, I'm sure Chrome could, too.
Avg Energy Impact:
- 14.08 Google Chrome
- 3.01 Docker (for Mac)
- 2.55 Sublime Text
- 2.04 Slack
- 2.03 Terminal
- 0.28 Mail
- 0.20 My Electron app (which hasn't been open all day, so this number is definitely wrong)
Some of those surprise me.
Those who complain about Electron being a hog are right. But it's not like there's nothing that can be done about it. I'm sure there are optimizations that could be made to reduce resource usage. Firefox recently improved memory usage. With enough demand, I'm sure Chrome could, too.