Re: bloatware

>> 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

Thanks for the support.

And Alan really knows whereof he speaks on such matters, as a maintainer of
Linux kernel source tarpits.


-- Jim Howard  <[email protected]>