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Snap packages – 10x slower than native

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Post by branc116 » Fri, Dec 20, 2024, 5:40 PM UTC

Snap packages – 10x slower than native
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Re: Snap packages – 10x slower than native

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Dec 20, 2024, 5:42 PM UTC

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Re: Snap packages – 10x slower than native

#3

Post by not_your_vase » Fri, Dec 20, 2024, 5:44 PM UTC

So, here is your daily conspiracy theory: Snap was actually made by Google (and Github/MS) as an effort to tout the performance of Electron apps: "It's twice as fast as snap!"

Re: Snap packages – 10x slower than native

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Post by IronWolve » Fri, Dec 20, 2024, 5:50 PM UTC

Always wondered why nobody did more tracing for latency in unneeded/excessive read syscalls. The amount of directories linux binaries search for files is amazing.

Its not just snap, most binaries are excessive in reads, ballpark, 20-30% of legacy paths, missing binaries, symlinks, etc.

Everytime something breaks and you start peeking at whats going on, its a WTF and WHY, and just assume its legacy built on legacy, for some purpose that no longer exists, maybe except in the extremely rare edge cases.

Re: Snap packages – 10x slower than native

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Post by YaBa » Sat, Dec 21, 2024, 1:36 AM UTC

Ah Snap, 1st thing to uninstall :)