On Thu, 2002-02-14 at 16:33, Havoc Pennington wrote: > > Sander Vesik <sv117949 ireland sun com> writes: > > On 14 Feb 2002, Havoc Pennington wrote: > > > > > > > > Sander Vesik <sv117949 ireland sun com> writes: > > > > gnome-calculator: 19968 14224 8600 5624 > > > > > > > > > > That has got to be a memory leak or something. If the > > > gnome_program_init() overhead is that high then we are going to be > > > seeing a lot of GTK-only apps out there. ;-) > > > > Well, *IF* there is a leak, it has to leak the amount ion the first couple > > of seconds and then stop leaking. Also looking at the sizes of other > > gnome2 programs running on my system, the sizes/maps are roughly similar. > > > > It definately shouldn't come as a suprise to anybody who has been > > following gnome2 in the last 6 months at all - its just isn't small and > > light, and I'm not sure the present architecture isn't blameless in that > > either. > > > > Here is the size of my gnome-panel-2 after it's been running for a while: > > 23192 hp 11 0 6392 5180 3260 S 0.1 2.0 0:56 gnome-panel-2 > > Not even close to the 20 megs you show for the calculator, and the > panel is a much more complex app, or should be. > > Nautilus 2 is noticeably snappier and smaller than Nautilus 1. > Overall GNOME 2 seems faster/smaller than 1.4 to me. 25053 hadess 9 0 8780 8780 6064 S 0.0 3.4 0:00 gnome-calculator And that's on powerpc, the architecture of big binaries. Are you even comparing same platforms there ? My Gnome2 platform seems slower than Gnome1 but it's got loads of debug in there. I reckon it will feel snappier once I recompile without debugging. Nautilus being the exception. Cheers -- /Bastien Nocera http://hadess.net
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