On Mon, 2007-02-12 at 12:13 +1100, James Cameron wrote: > On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 12:51:35AM +0000, Jon Phillips wrote: > > Yes, this is very interesting information. I just brought this up on > > the Inkscape list. I think it raises an interesting question and > > underscores how memory leaks could bring OLPC (or other systems with > > limited resources) to its knees quickly. > > I think it is already well understood by the OLPC team.
Right, I mainly meant good to consider for desktop apps like Inkscape that aren't so concerned with memory issues...obviously Inkscape tries hard to maintain usefulness on as many systems as possible... > Perhaps the more important thing about OLPC isn't the size of the memory > available, but rather the intention to run the kernel and user space > nearly forever, using suspend and resume. Oh, that is true...and truly important distinction... > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_Leak has a good description of the > concept of memory leaks. I agree with an opinion therein, ... > > "The term 'memory leak' is evocative and non-programmers especially can > become so attached to the term as to use it for completely unrelated > memory issues ..." Interesting...thx for the link... Jon -- Jon Phillips San Francisco, CA USA PH 510.499.0894 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.rejon.org MSN, AIM, Yahoo Chat: kidproto Jabber Chat: [EMAIL PROTECTED] IRC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.laptop.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
