Re: bloatware

Alan Cox <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.xfree86.forum
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> Adding more features while also making the runtime memory usage 
> of the X server smaller are rather mutually exclusive goals.  For 

In the X case as with most others that is untrue. Read the output
of the X blitting macros one day 8)

> I wont bother going into details about the X server *not* 
> actually using much memory at all, and the fact that most people 
> claim X is huge and bloated by basing their assessment on the 
> broken and misleading output of programs like top and ps though.

X uses tons of memory. Much of it is the clients fault but XFree86
is overweight.

Alan
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