On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 07:13:41PM +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote > On Wednesday 25 May 2011 08:46:48 Indi wrote:
> and have you ever heard of 'code reuse' or 'modularity'? > > It seems - no. > > Because KDE itself might be huge. But once loaded the apps are pretty small - > because they reuse code. kmail does not have its own html engine. It does not > matter where you type your text etc pp. Sorta like Internet Explorer in Windows. It "loads" a lot faster and lighter than Firefox or Opera. That's because ie.exe is merely a "front end" to a bunch of libraries that are loaded at boot time, which contributes to the boot process taking do long. Starting ie.exe takes hardly any time, because 90% of the app is already loaded. > Overall KDE uses LESS ram then most 'lightweight' solutions. Because > xterm&abiword&some odd pager&thunderbird don't look so good anymore. > > This gem is a couple of years old, but still a worthy read: > > http://ktown.kde.org/~seli/memory/desktop_benchmark.html > > > Read it. Seriously. I don't know how good "exmap" is, but my personal experience is quite different. Between Fall 1999 and Summer 2007 I had a Dell Dimension with a 450 mhz PIII and 128 megs of *SYSTEM RAM* (no not the video card). It was actually quite usable to the very end, with Blackbox WM, and running a few apps. Meanwhile, KDE (and GNOME for that matter) would take forever to load and make the system crawl after that, even with 1 or 2 apps loaded. -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org>
