On 29/01/2012 20:55, Conscious User wrote: > > Em 29-01-2012 10:10, Chow Loong Jin escreveu: >> On 29/01/2012 16:22, supernova wrote: >>> Goodmorning (GMT+1) to all. Yesterday I tried Precise, and it works >>> very good. I have seen that it is a bit slower and more fat than the >>> gnome-shell, as it happened for 11.10, 11.04, ... . I guess it is due >>> to compiz, which is more heavy than mutter. Why don't use mutter then? >>> Unity doesn't use effects as rotation and wobbly. So mutter could be >>> sufficient. >> >> Before Unity came along, Compiz was much leaner than Mutter/GNOME Shell was, >> using around 20MB of memory at any point of time, and not leaking any. After >> Unity came along, Compiz's memory consumption jumped up to ~80-100MB. >> >> If anything, Unity is why Compiz is running slower and "fatter" than >> previously. > > > If I remember correctly, Unity came along at the same time > Compiz 0.9.0 did, and 0.9.0 was the complete rewrite from > C to C++. So Unity is probably not the only reason.
Not quite. I was using a Compiz 0.9.0 compiled using the script from git://anongit.compiz.org/users/soreau/scripts before Unity came along, and its memory consumption was ~20MB. Unity made all the difference. -- Kind regards, Loong Jin
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