New client less of a resource hog, Slack claims, following ground-up rewrite

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Slack claims new client uses half the memory and launches 33 per cent faster - about time, too

Slack has updated its desktop and web clients to lessen the app's resource intensiveness - specifically, slashing its memory use in half and reducing by 33 per cent the amount of time it takes to l...

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