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Post by hibiscus4156 » Sun, Aug 30, 2020, 4:47 PM UTC

fny wrote: post #8

dexterleng wrote: post #4

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> it taking quite a lot of CPU Yes that is fixed. The reason for slow performance + high cpu usage on electron/webkit apps was just the sheer amount of mach ipc calls (from the many many layers) needed to be made to fetch the entire UI element tree. This has been fixed two days ago Heres the solution for those interested: https://github.com/dexterleng/vimac/pull/190 I was also using a bunch of async queues instead of…

Why did you choose to use electron for something so specific to MacOS? Awesome project by the way. This will save my wrists from a lot of pain.

Post by dexterleng » Sun, Aug 30, 2020, 4:48 PM UTC

fny wrote: post #8

dexterleng wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> it taking quite a lot of CPU Yes that is fixed. The reason for slow performance + high cpu usage on electron/webkit apps was just the sheer amount of mach ipc calls (from the many many layers) needed to be made to fetch the entire UI element tree. This has been fixed two days ago Heres the solution for those interested: https://github.com/dexterleng/vimac/pull/190 I was also using a bunch of async queues instead of…

Why did you choose to use electron for something so specific to MacOS? Awesome project by the way. This will save my wrists from a lot of pain.

Post by dexterleng » Sun, Aug 30, 2020, 4:53 PM UTC

siproprio wrote: post #14

I really want a version of this for Windows as well!

Post by ziftface » Sun, Aug 30, 2020, 5:09 PM UTC

siproprio wrote: post #14

I really want a version of this for Windows as well!

Post by wakkaflokka » Sun, Aug 30, 2020, 5:42 PM UTC