At the risk of getting back on topic ;)

(and I actually really like Perl; it's saved my butt here in
viewdraw-schematic-land many times.  But cannot really comment on its
use by real s/w engrs for real applications.)

Anyway, regarding the memory footprint, it does seem large (but we can
still ask, does it matter that much).  Here are the top
easily-recognizable memory users on my laptop right now:

slim         60M
javaw        35M  (softsqueeze)
thunderbird  33M
outlook      33M  (don't give me crap--I need it for mtgs)
explorer     32M
...
firefox      29M  (7th in list)
visio        25M
...
excel        17M  (11th in list)
slimtray     7.5M (17th in list)

I have zero music files on this laptop; just using slim for internet
feeds with the softsqueeze infc.

I'm just wondering: is much of this footprint coming from the plugins
or is it mostly the main app?  The plugins are what really make
slimserver attractive, IMO, so I wouldn't really care to remove them. 
I don't have any loaded other than the ones which come packaged with
slimserver.

On the laptop I don't care much about the 60MB; I'm priviledged to have
2GB DRAM.  However, on the home machine it's only 512MB.  (so funny--the
first hard drive I bought for my mother was 20MB :)


-- 
Dave D
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