Re: [gtkmm] gtkmm is really big

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

You will find more numbers in the archive:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=gtkmm&m=106960351701653&w=2

I'm sure this can be improved, but it must be done by someone who needs
it.

On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 13:50, Seth Moore wrote:
> That's all true, but we're constrained more heavily by code size than by
> memory.  It was my mistake for not qualifying more heavily, but that 32 MB I
> meantioned earlier is for ROM, not RAM.
> 
> We've decided to stick with the native gtk+ C interface.  Being a C++ bigot,
> I'd prefer to use a gtkmm, but it should be no problem to use plain old gtk+.
>  We're able to take the ~300k hit on the stdc++ libraries and such, but not
> the extra ~2MB that gtkmm adds on top of that.
> 
> Thanks everyone here for your input.
> 
> -Seth
> 
> ---------- Original Message -----------
> From: "Arvind R." <arvind acarlab com>
> To: gtkmm-list gnome org
> Sent: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 02:42:09 +0530
> Subject: [gtkmm] gtkmm is really big
> 
> > 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
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