Re: Extreme memory usage for gnome-panel related apps



On Sun, 2007-12-02 at 16:30 +0100, Mark wrote:
> With that memory usage i wouldn't mind it at all if ALL my memory was
> used up and my OS was lightning fast.. but that's not the case. it's
> just poor memory usage of those applications.
> 
> And i understand the "programmers" that make python based applications
> (or c#) but that has some issues along the way.
> You spend more memory with those apps and they are bad for your
> performance.. if they would have been written in c or c++ than it
> wouldn't use that much memory and the performance would have been a
> lot better.
> 
> But well.. c/c++ is hard to learn. Python isn't that hard and the same
> applications can be build with it so that's probably why it's tempting
> use it.. but it does blow up the memory usage and kills performance..
> 
> At the moment i'm learning Java.. which can also do all those
> applications but it has the same issues as python (in performance and
> memory). Is there any "easy to learn" language that isn't killing
> performance and isn't taking up extreme amounts of memory? (ruby?)
> this article [1] might be interesting
> 
> [1] http://www.dmh2000.com/cjpr/



Vala of course - http://live.gnome.org/Vala

if you like c#/java but want c speed and efficiency then there is no
better language


jamie




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