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>because despite what you say, web-sockets themselves have heartbeats, and 12x the heartbeats is 12x the reasons for your phone’s modem to wake up.

Don’t put words in my mouth. A heartbeat is not high resource usage.

Your wall of text doesn’t negate the fact that multiple websockets can be maintained with trivial resource consumption. It absolutely cannot be generalized to assume that multiple websockets means copies of everything. I’ve seen multiple clients supporting multiple websocket connections to distinct servers while re-using all of the same UI components.



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