Keeping Figma Fast: perf-testing the WASM editor

Post by plorntus » Wed, Aug 30, 2023, 11:19 PM UTC

Fraterkes wrote: post #34

preommr wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It would not. 1. Wasm based UI libraries exist already, checkout makepad [0] for example. 2. Web app standards are way higher than when flash was around. I highly doubt there would be any serious discussion that would also involve vue/react as alternatives. Almost as ridiculous as asking about using unity ui vs react. 3. Flash was world class media design tool for animation and production design. People were using it…

I do some graphics work and I wouldnt say that there is a world of difference between the capabilities of Illustrator and Figma. Photoshop is obviously a completely different tool. Very textural digital painting of the kind that photoshop excells at would be pretty tricky in a browser. (Theres a webversion of Heavypaint now, but thats vector-based of course.

Post by failuser » Wed, Aug 30, 2023, 11:32 PM UTC

MBCook wrote: post #42

I have the displeasure of using Figma at my job. I have a very low opinion of anything that locks up my browser for multiple seconds (Chrome or Safari) whenever I open it in a tab. Then it takes a few seconds to load the file, which I don’t care much about. But locking my entire browser is inexcusable. It’s nice they’re working on performance once you get going, but launch performance is abysmal for me (x86-64 Mac).

Post by adamnemecek » Wed, Aug 30, 2023, 11:39 PM UTC

skhameneh wrote: post #22

Evan Wallace (former CTO) was a WASM pioneer IMO, he has plenty of excellent explorations and works shared on GitHub. I don't know Evan, but I've greatly appreciated stumbling into his works when exploring SharedArrayBuffer and what was once bleeding edge browser performance. https://github.com/evanw

Post by seanthemon » Wed, Aug 30, 2023, 11:47 PM UTC

failuser wrote: post #43

MBCook wrote: post #42

I have the displeasure of using Figma at my job. I have a very low opinion of anything that locks up my browser for multiple seconds (Chrome or Safari) whenever I open it in a tab. Then it takes a few seconds to load the file, which I don’t care much about. But locking my entire browser is inexcusable. It’s nice they’re working on performance once you get going, but launch performance is abysmal for me (x86-64 Mac).

I’ve seen this happen, but I don’t understand why that is possible. Chrome tabs are separate process, how can one tab freeze the whole browser even when running the worst code in existence?

Post by yazzku » Thu, Aug 31, 2023, 12:14 AM UTC

fswd wrote: post #44

MBCook wrote: post #42

I have the displeasure of using Figma at my job. I have a very low opinion of anything that locks up my browser for multiple seconds (Chrome or Safari) whenever I open it in a tab. Then it takes a few seconds to load the file, which I don’t care much about. But locking my entire browser is inexcusable. It’s nice they’re working on performance once you get going, but launch performance is abysmal for me (x86-64 Mac).

Requiring figma at a job should be a human rights violation :). I'm off the grid and whenever I use figma it drains my batteries with a high CPU load. I have to be careful to open it during the dead winter, if I leave it open I could drain my entire 5kw setup. If I throttle my CPU, it's totally unusable. Hopefully I can get a more efficent setup (currently an old 2400GE minipc). Usually I take a screen snapshot becau…