On Sep 18, 2007, at 10:45 , Don Hopkins wrote: > >> This is #3352: https://dev.laptop.org/ticket/3352 >> >> What's special about this page is that the clock applet uses two >> very wide bitmaps of 3200 pixels each to represent the clock arms >> in all >> possible positions. (that's over 2MB of RAM wasted, nice!) >> > > Wow, 2MB of ram for a clock? That's 32 Commodore 64's: even worse than > Sun's Open Look clock tool! Kids these days... > > From the "X-Windows Disaster": > http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/unix-haters/x-windows/disaster.html > > "X has had its share of $5,000 toilet seats -- like Sun's Open Look > clock tool, which gobbles up 1.4 megabytes of real memory! If you > sacrificed all the RAM from 22 Commodore 64s to clock tool, it still > wouldn't have enough to tell you the time. Even the vanilla X11R4 > "xclock" utility consumed 656K to run. And X's memory usage is > increasing."
Well, if the XO's calculator activity can take 20 MB RAM (+10MB shared), then 2 MB for a clock seems small. - Bert - _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
