On 06/23/2015 12:36 PM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
On Tuesday, 23 June 2015 at 16:18:01 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
Yea, I'll have to take a closer look at that. My first impression is
that "Linux VM" sounds very heavy-weight, but I supposed it need not
necessarily be.
Well, keep in mind that I want to kill the browser, which is already
very heavy-weight!
Very true. Fair point.
Firefox is like 80 MB.... http://www.tinycorelinux.net/downloads.html
that's 9 MB and probably more than the browser VM would need!
ABout 99% of the time, my browser (FF) is soaking up anywhere from
1-1.5GB of RAM. By far the biggest memory hog on my system (at least
when I don't have a Windows VM or something running).
Well, there is one other exception though: After switching my main
desktop to Linux, I found that my favorite editor (Programmer's Notepad
2) has some issues under Wine, so I've been using a lot of Komodo Edit.
Unfortunately, among other big annoyances, Komodo seems to have some
serious memory leak issues because it's ram usage only ever grows, never
shrinks (not even if I close ALL files), and after only a few days it'll
hit 1GB+ ram as well, and then start pausing/lagging like crazy. Ugh.
I'm trying Kate now. Actually seems to have grown up from an "MS Notepad
for KDE" to a fully legitimate code editor since the last time I really
looked closely at it (back in KDE3 days). Seems quite promising so far.
The core
system should be sharable without copying the file every time, and its
only job is to run one program, providing it a familiar, consistent base
api. I don't think the weight would be much of a problem, though perhaps
it might be on the mobile sphere.
If the weight is a problem on mobile, that would unfortunately be a
deal-breaker. Mobile web is every bit as important as desktop web these
days, and will likely only grow further.
