Re: mmapped icon foo ...

[Matthias Clasen <mclasen redhat com>]

On Fri, 2006-07-14 at 09:52 +0100, Michael Meeks wrote:
> Hi dudie,
> 
>         I was wondering; since [ in most cases ] now the icon data is
> shared
> across processes in the mmapped image cache; is it the case that we
> can
> mostly avoid loading the respective gdk-pixbuf loaders, and libjpeg /
> libpng etc. for most apps ? [ and hence their various dirty pages /
> linking slow-down etc. ].
> 
>         Strangely, when I look at small / large apps (zenity / gedit)
> - they
> seem to manage to pull in libpng and often libjpeg anyway. Any idea
> why ?
> 
>         Just a thought,
> 
>                 Michael.

libgtk-x11-2.0.so does not directly link to libpng, but cairo pulls it
in.