forrestthewoods, 22 days ago

Proving that Immediate Mode GUIs aren’t significant battery hogs. Computers are really fast!

MacBook M1 Idle: 3.5 watts

Dear ImGui: 7.5
ImPlot: 8.9
EGUI: 8.2
Rerun: 11.1

Spotify: 5.8
VSCode: 7.0
YouTube: 11.5
Facebook: 8.7

Compiling: 50.0

Full blog post: https://www.forrestthewoods.com/blog/proving-immediate-mode-guis-are-performant/