Re: Gnome memory requirements

["Iain *" <iaingnome gmail com>]

On 9/16/06, Fernando Apesteguía <fernando apesteguia gmail com> wrote:

> > Next thing is, that GLib memory subsystem don't really free memory on g_free
> > (), but do this when program exits. Memory freed with g_free () is still
> > 'located' for program, which allocated it for first time.
>
> Yes, that's true.

Its only true for any memory created by using g_slice. g_free is the
same as a free. Memory is then returned back to the system.

> > In my opinion article publicated by osnews.com is unreliable because of
> > GLib's memory subsystem behavior.

In my opinion, thats got nothing to do with it.
I think the article is unreliable because of inequalities in the test
environments:
Evolution being compared to Kontact for example and (shock!) taking more memory.

But I'd say this is offtopic for this list.
iain