First gtk3 results

Natanael Copa ncopa at alpinelinux.org
Sun May 6 22:24:36 CEST 2012


On Sat, 05 May 2012 11:53:49 +0200
Nick Schermer <nick at xfce.org> wrote:

> So, Stephan and I ported libxfce4ui and xfce4-appfinder and these are 
> the first memory results.
> 
>   Private  +   Shared  =  RAM used       Program
>    5.6 MiB + 781.5 KiB =   6.3 MiB       xfrun4 (gtk3)
>    2.8 MiB +   1.2 MiB =   4.0 MiB       xfrun4 (gtk2)
> 
>   Private  +   Shared  =  RAM used       Program
>    6.0 MiB + 943.0 KiB =   6.9 MiB       xfce4-appfinder (gtk3)
>    3.1 MiB +   1.4 MiB =   4.5 MiB       xfce4-appfinder (gtk2)
> 
> This is on the same system with the beautiful Raleigh theme. The 
> private size doubled, which is quite bad. Don't think this will get
> much worse with applications like Thunar, because memory wise
> xfce4-appfinder is hungry with all the icons, but my best guess is
> that we will see this with all other applications.

This is kind of sad. I suppose only way to fix that is to fix gtk?

-nc


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