Is Gnome becoming a Microsoft project?

Tim ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au
Fri Jul 20 07:52:15 UTC 2012


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.

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