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Proving Immediate Mode GUIs Are Performant


Analyzing power consumption to prove immediate mode GUIs are efficient.

Rerun is, somehow, faster than YouTube Spotify is lean VSCode has way too much jitter, imho Compiling at 100% CPU takes 50 watts Multiple IMGUI implementations with disabled idle optimization are quite performant and in the same ballpark as popular retained mode GUIs. Retained Mode Spotify (desktop app) VSCode Scroll and browse code files, but no modifications

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