Integrating XCB with X11 and memory footprint

[Diego González <diego pemas net>]

hi

i just compiled libX11 and discovered that now it depends on XCB, no
problem, i donwloaded it from the GIT repository and compiled it.

After doing so i tried to see what it had installed, i discovered a new
world of 20 very small libraries (the biggest being libXCB.so.0.0.0
which is 62K).

The problem with of these small libraries is that when each of them are
loaded the dynamic linking requires one full page for the symbol tables,
this page cannot be shared between processes, thus increasing the memory
that each process using X11 libraries requires.

See this thread on gnome performance for more information:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.performance/263/match=gthread

Now that there is still time, i think that it would be a neat idea to
merge some of these libraries so that the impact on overall memory
pressure this change would bring. Having a very modular system is a
loable purpose, but a small memory footprint should also be kept in mind
when doing so, I guess that some of these libraries are going to be used
together always (or most of the times), thus i think they could be
merged into a single library.

This email is just my two cents, take it with a grain of salt as i'm no
expert in this topic. However if this email makes the X11 and XCB
authors consider and investigate into this issue my goal would have been
achieved.

Thanks a lot for your marvellous work,

Diego González