Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [HEADSUP] libreoffice versus bison-2.5

["Walter Dnes" <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>]

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 <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>