KDE Versus Xfce
Jani Monoses
jani.monoses at gmail.com
Thu Dec 22 02:16:04 CET 2005
> it's really too bad that this is the case - but when I see the stats I
> wonder about other things like memory usage - possibly KDE is much more
> optimized than Xfce - after all they have a tonload of good coders doing
> nothing but profiling, so you would expect that they are able to squeeze
> everything as fast as possible into the system. Xfce is probably smaller
> but wastes time on the fringes everywhere - the performance gain
> achievable for Xfce should be much higher than for KDE and GNOME -
> they're at the end of their possibilities.
Considering xfce has not yet started to explicitely optimize I think
it's not that bad :). I am sure it can get even better simply because it
uses way less data on startup than gnome/kde
Jani
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