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φ @fiore@brain.worm.pink
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going insane over the apparent fact that the ELECTRON TERMINAL uses LESS THAN HALF MEMORY than god damn GHOSTTY
imgonna install ot myself and check this is making me scream inside
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Two Hollywood Phonies @autumn@cafe.autumn.town
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@fiore im not a person who complains about RAM but that's insane 😭
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φ @fiore@brain.worm.pink
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@autumn i suspect that chromium is a separate process . ill have to check for myself , because i cant believe it uses the same amount as xfce term
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φ @fiore@brain.worm.pink
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@autumn like that’s just INSANE , v8 is very well optimized but like . its not dark magic , lol
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φ @fiore@brain.worm.pink
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@autumn maybe it uses cloud ram or something !!! /j
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Two Hollywood Phonies @autumn@cafe.autumn.town
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@fiore its gpu accelerated so it uses VRAM instead of system Memory yep .
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φ @fiore@brain.worm.pink
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@autumn i think ghostty is gpu accelerated as well . so ill try both on my desktop now because i dnt have a gpu so thats probably the difference
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φ @fiore@brain.worm.pink
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@autumn ok yea lol this is 1 single instance of each one
single ghostty instance using 136MB of memory
hyper terminal spawning multiple processes using each about 100MB of memory
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φ @fiore@brain.worm.pink
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@autumn cc @max
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max ✦ @max@duke.social
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@fiore @autumn made with only mac os in mind award
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φ @fiore@brain.worm.pink
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@max @autumn nah its just that its using vram lol , i dont have a gpu ^^”
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Two Hollywood Phonies @autumn@cafe.autumn.town
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@fiore @max i was joking about that i dont think thats a thing 😭
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φ @fiore@brain.worm.pink
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@autumn @max oh rlly ? why wouldnt it be tho , it makes sense ,

ghostty does use opengl , idk if that matters
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Two Hollywood Phonies @autumn@cafe.autumn.town
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@fiore @max im not familiar with the internals at all but VRAM is only used for tasks that a graphic card does, and so it'd be used for stuff like accelerating and rendering it but actually having that terminal session running.
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φ @fiore@brain.worm.pink
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@autumn @max > GPU-accelerated rendering: Ghostty uses Metal on macOS and OpenGL on Linux to render the terminal screen.

does this mean that the ram usage would drop if i had a gpu ?
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Two Hollywood Phonies @autumn@cafe.autumn.town
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@fiore @max you've got a GPU it's just integrated into your CPU, if you didn't have a GPU then your desktop wouldn't run.
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φ @fiore@brain.worm.pink
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@autumn @max yea what i mean is that im using integrated graphics so i probably have very little vram and most of the memory footprint goes to ram
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Two Hollywood Phonies @autumn@cafe.autumn.town
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@fiore @max if that's a worry then there should be a bios option for it, but also my understanding is that you don't need a good GPU or anything like that for GPU acceleration or even a lot of VRAM, you just offloading small tasks that a GPU does better to the CPU.
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Two Hollywood Phonies @autumn@cafe.autumn.town
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@fiore @max someone with more knowledge than me should speak on this because i barely know what im talking about
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