Re: Hello, some of us still care about memory usage

["Jasper St. Pierre" <jstpierre mecheye net>]

On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 7:11 PM, John Lindgren <john lindgren aol com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Over three weeks ago I posted a patch to the bug tracker (#680059) that
> significantly reduces the memory usage of all GTK+ 3.x applications by
> avoiding creating thousands of duplicate GtkWidgetPath elements.  For
> example, Audacious has an RSS size of 15.7 MB before patching GTK+ but only
> 13.4 MB after -- that's a reduction of over 2 MB from a single patch.
>
> However, there has been no response whatsoever, from anyone, in those three
> weeks.  Has GTK+ given up on listening to input from application developers?
> Given the lack of Win32 support, the increased memory usage, and now this
> silence from the developers, should I just give up on GTK+ 3.x entirely and
> fork GTK+ 2.x?

I'm personally sorry for the lack of response. We don't have a lot of
developers, and we all have a lot of things to do, and sometimes bugs
do go under the radar. The patch looks good to me, besides the
mechanical things (lack of commit message, for one). I'd poke Cosimo
or Benjamin in the morning to see if you can get a more exhaustive
review done.

> Sincerely disappointed,
>
> -- John Lindgren
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  Jasper