[gtkmm] gtkmm is really big

["Arvind R." <arvind acarlab com>]

Hi,

On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 11:36:47 -0500, Seth Moore wrote
> ....
> hello_gtk    -  2841K
> hello_gtkmm  -  5232K

to which Billy O'Connor replied :
> I'm surprised it's that *small*.
> ...

And Eric Newman formulated a comparison procedure:

My question:

Does it really matter?
Haven't the PMMU guys and the page-fault handler guys made
it such that only needed parts are loaded? I don't think
that C++ ( and gtkmm in consequence ) adds too much to
executing code - of course, the class trees don't know
about user-app's usage profile and hence a lot of dead-code
( WRT the user app ) might be carried. And a generic GUI
( gtkmm ) necessarily has large class trees.

The penalties are only with disk-storage and up/downloading

- arvind