@freakazoid Some pointers to that end: the actual thing that Electron uses is CEF, Chromium Embedded Framework, which can more or less be thought of as "just the engine part of Chromium without all the other browser stuff" (ie. mostly just layout, parsing, and an embedded JS runtime, similar to modern UI toolkits), the baseline memory use of Electron is somewhere in the region of 50MB at most, V8 is a very fast and well-optimized JS runtime (achieving close to C performance in some cases... and often better performance in typical I/O-bound scenarios), and most of the 'memory use' of both V8 and the rendering subsystem are optimistic memory allocations/retaining that are not actually used yet to prevent memory fragmentation, and which disappears under memory pressure.