The comparisons you posted showed only a 10 MB difference in RAM use... less than 10%, with a massive difference in space on disk. There is quite clearly no correlation between resource use and size on disk. Furthermore, there is no correlation between RAM use and performance (which most people care about a lot more). Many applications will pre-allocate RAM. Microsoft SQL Server, for example, is delighted to take virtually every spare byte of RAM for itself when it starts. Could it be that Tauri (or Electron!) is doing this?

The comparisons that really matter are apples-to-apples execution speed tests of the same application running the same code, like what Microsoft published when they moved Teams off of Electron.

Personally, I have zero skin in this game, I don't code or target any of these systems, so it isn't like I am a super Electron apologist. I'm just an end user who is tired of having a 32 GB RAM machine bog down because when I look hard enough, I have 28 instances of Chromium/Chrome/Trident/whatever running under the hood, all because developers are using these systems. There's no single "straw that broke the camel's back", it's just an overall big mess for end users.

J.Ja