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lpsz on April 19, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Managing the Deluge of Atom Issues

I tried VS Code the other day after the big announcement but "Electron Helper" or something was routinely taking up 2-3% CPU, eating the battery. Why is there even a separate helper process? Will try again in a few months, I guess.

comex on April 19, 2016 [–]

There's a separate helper process because Electron is based on Chromium, which has a multiprocess architecture - AFAIK "Electron Helper" is the same thing as "Google Chrome Helper". No idea about the CPU.

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