Is Gnome becoming a Microsoft project?

[Ian Malone]

On 20 July 2012 08:52, Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-07-20 at 02:36 +0300, Veeti Paananen wrote:
>> Out of curiosity, I tried installing one of the examples you mentioned
>> and Vuze gobbled up 160 megabytes instantly which is completely
>> unacceptable for a torrent client.
>>
>> That might not sound like a lot nowadays, but it adds up surprisingly
>> quickly with "just" 4 gigabytes of memory.
>
> Yes, programmers seem to forget that just because you have X amount of
> RAM and y CPU speed, that you don't want one program to use all of it by
> itself.  You want to be able to do several things simultaneously.
>

Programmers generally write the programme to do what it's meant to do.
That said see Andrew Haley's reply, the Java VM when it starts says 'I
/may/ need this much memory', is doesn't take it all up unless it's
actually used.

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