Comment on React Desktop – React UI Components for OS X El Capitan and Windows 10parentComments−MichaelGG10yTrue. Popcorn Time is written with NodeJS. Hence it takes a very long time to install or upgrade (has to handle thousands of files) and has rather high CPU use at runtime.−voltagex_10yI wonder if it read from a tar file instead of individual files on slow (NTFS) filesystems it'd be faster.−scrollaway10yThat's the logic behind most games. They implement a package format (sadly usually their own) for the game files for fast access.
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True. Popcorn Time is written with NodeJS. Hence it takes a very long time to install or upgrade (has to handle thousands of files) and has rather high CPU use at runtime.
I wonder if it read from a tar file instead of individual files on slow (NTFS) filesystems it'd be faster.
That's the logic behind most games. They implement a package format (sadly usually their own) for the game files for fast access.