Where the elementary appcenter needs 900 MB, and KDE Discover needs 600 MB, the COSMIC Store needs only 60 MB. The COSMIC Store uses serde to serialize package metadata into a bitcode format, which uses significantly less memory and enables rapid application startup times. As a result, it does not need to run in the background, and it can search the entire database in realtime within 5ms.
winrid|2 years ago