Meteor Electron runs slower than Meteor app in Chrome Browser

[sferoze]

I've noticed that the meteor electron mac app runs slower than the meteor app in mac chrome browser. Things like scrolling and css transitions run sluggishly but in the Chrome browser they run snappy.

Any reason for this? Does electron use an outdated version of chrome under the hood?

[KoenLav]

We are experiencing the same thing.

@wojtkowiak any pointers to experiment with ways to improve the performance?

[wojtkowiak]

Hey, are you still experiencing this? If so could you prepare a small repro I could work on?

[KoenLav]

@wojtkowiak I think this is easily explained by the fact that Electron 1.7.9 uses Chrome 58/59 (with the old Crankshaft) as compared to 2.0 which uses Chrome 61 (and 66 to come) with the new TurboFan engine.