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		ramses0 on June 14, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: Slim – Build and run tiny VMs from Docker... So you use the browser app which uses approximately the same amount of memory / resources?

pushpop on June 14, 2019 [–]

Minus the browser. Each Electron app isn’t just the running web app but also the browser instance too. Where as a web app running in a browser wouldn’t consume its own browser instance.

That browser instance alone can make quite a noticeable difference.

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