Re: Improvements in memory footprint of gnome-terminal

[Kjartan Maraas <kmaraas broadpark no>]

tor, 03,.03.2005 kl. 14.50 +0100, skrev Alexander Larsson:
>On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 11:32 +0100, Kjartan Maraas wrote:
>> 
>> 15   0 35528  11m 8360 S  2.0  1.2   0:01.46 gnome-terminal
>> 
>> also after removing all traces of s/key support in g-t
>> 
>> 15   0 35304  11m 8352 S  3.3  1.2   0:01.02 gnome-terminal
>
>In other words, we saved 8 KB of real memory use. Is removing this
>feature worth 8 KB? I use the skey dingus, but I could live without it
>too.
>
After some more testing I can see that the virtual memory and RSS values
fluxuate wildly (+/- ~100kb) for each time I start it so I don't think
this is a good argument to remove the feature alone. I was more
concerned that this was not being used by anyone and bloats the terminal
needlessly codewise. The skey code is ancient and not following coding
styles and so on. If people use it we can keep it of course.

It does shave 40kb off the binary size though...just kidding :-)

Cheers
Kjartan