> On 24 Jun 2019, at 14:43, Simon Hausmann <simon.hausm...@qt.io> wrote: > > I have two more numbers to add: Compressed (7z) the download size would > be around ~44 MB. I measured on Windows with a Qt Creator built with > WebEngine support and surfed a little through the docs. The memory > consumption of the web engine process weighed in between 14-20 MB of RAM. > > So it looks like this AFAICS: > > * We would be adding 145 MB of additional disk usage > > * We would add ~44 MB to the download size of Qt Creator > > * We would eat ~14-20 MB of additional RAM (not quite fair though, > as we'd have to subtract the QTextDocument memory usage for a diff). > > > I don't quite share the opinion that these are "beastly" numbers for > desktop machines running C++ development environments. I think that they > are worth it. In exchange we can show external content like cppreference > or cmake docs without having to worry about their rendering, we can get > rid of our separate style sheets and workarounds and we can render the > Qt documentation the same way as on the website. We can eliminate an > entire class of problems, and we can still prevent such content from > accessing remote websites. > > > We've had this situation for a long time now and I think that we should > finally move forward and give our users better quality at the expense of > their disk space, memory consumption and download size. >
I fully agree with this. Thanks for the numbers Simon! Tor Arne _______________________________________________ Development mailing list Development@qt-project.org https://lists.qt-project.org/listinfo/development
