Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: code bloat [was Re: Semaphore assembly-code bug] | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | Sun, 31 Oct 2004 15:19:50 +0000 |
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On Sul, 2004-10-31 at 01:21, Z Smith wrote: > Alan Cox wrote: > > > So if the desktop stuff is annoying you join gnome-love or whatever the > > kde equivalent is 8) > > Or join me in my effort to limit bloat. Why use an X server > that uses 15-30 megs of RAM when you can use FBUI which is 25 kilobytes > of code with very minimal kmallocing?
My X server seems to be running at about 4Mbytes, plus the frame buffer mappings which make it appear a lot larger. I wouldn't be suprised if half the 4Mb was pixmap cache too, maybe more.
I've helped write tiny UI kits (take a look at nanogui for example) but they don't have the flexibility of X.
Alan
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