Relatively large memory footprint of the initial project (57.9MB)

[imWildCat]

Hello, this project is amazing and I love it!

After building the project, I found the memory footprint it quite high. Any way to fix it?

[leaanthony]

Well, high is relative 😃 if you can find a way I'll always be happy to accept a PR!

[leaanthony]

Also note that the bulk of this will be fixed overhead. It sure beats an electron project.

[mgutz]

I'm observing the same on Linux with the current Wails version. I created a simple petite-vue counter app in Wails and compared the memory usage against VS Code with no files open. Surprisingly, the trivial Wails app (production build) used more memory.

This might just come down to Chromium being more resource friendly than Webview. Is the tradeoff for a smaller binary worth it?

[kazzkiq]

@mgutz it looks like a Linux WebKit issue, all projects that use webviews for UI face it, not only Wails.

Check this table comparing memory usage from a simple app (source here):

Memory Usage

	Electron	NW.JS	Tauri	NodeGui	Neutralino	Wails	Flutter	.Net MAUI	.Net MAUI w/ Vue
Windows (x64)	≈67MB (Debug) => ≈88MB (Release)	≈102MB (Debug) => ≈40MB (Release)	≈41MB (Debug) => ≈25MB (Release)	≈123MB (Debug)	≈69MB (Debug)	≈49MB (Debug) => ≈28MB (Release)	≈274MB (Debug)	N/A1	N/A2
MacOS (x64)	≈66MB (Debug) => ≈65MB (Release)	≈53MB (Debug) => ≈82MB (Release)	≈50MB (Debug) => ≈29MB (Release)	≈107MB (Debug)	≈77MB (Debug) => ≈28MB (Release)	≈65MB (Debug) => ≈32MB (Release)	≈186MB (Debug)	N/A1	N/A2
Linux (x64)	≈166MB (Debug) => ≈165MB (Release)	≈96MB (Debug)	≈116MB (Debug) => ≈83MB (Release)	≈163MB (Debug)	≈198MB (Debug) => ≈216MB (Release)	≈220MB (Debug) => ≈195MB (Release)	≈399MB (Debug)	N/A1	N/A2

Wails perform better than most options on the list and pretty close to Tauri in all platforms, with only Linux behaving oddly and using huge amounts of memory for them all.

But certainly there is room for improvement, since Tails managed to drop their memory usage on Linux quite a bit.

[leaanthony]

Oh wow, how on earth do we get such wildly different figures than Tauri for Linux??? Is that a Go issue?