2009/2/20 Huan Truong <huantnh at gmail.com>:
> @Phuong:
>> Ok, I have 2GBs of RAM, and even if
>> Firefox consume 500MBs of it, my system
>> still runs fine, but that is wrong, eveyone
>> can see that.
>
> I don't "see" that as a wrong design, it's just simply a trade-off.
> They make the XUL stuff so extensible and you have to trade your
> memory consumption for the extensibility. The same thing goes to oOo -
> it is slow, it is clunky, but the point is all the programs like Fx
> and oOo do the goddamn work they are supposed to, so it is "good" if
> they can make it less power-hungry, but is is not necessarily a wrong
> decision! The same thing happens to GNOME/KDE vs all the "lighter
> desktop environments."
>
> Ask yourself: Why Ubuntu not aiming being light is still the best in
> overall distro? Why Fx the browser that eats your 500MB of memory
> still the best browser in overall? Why oOo, takes 5 seconds to start,
> still your office software?
>
> So to wrap it up, Actually I don't like bloatware but in the same time
> I just want to say I tried to care less about stuff that sounds too
> techie, like RAM consumption and stuff like that, because we are
> having/going to have computers that are far more powerful than what
> the OS needs. I have a PC back home bought from 2001 and it has 512MB
> of RAM and an 1.7 Ghz CPU.
Well, Mozilla learned the lesson and actually firefox is one of the
lightest browser on Windows, even opening 8 tabs and 120MBs is the
number of RAM it uses. While Opera, 9 tabs and it is already 190MBs.
And I don't think OO.o is too bloated, it only use 70MBs RAM now, the
main reason for its slugginess is because it use Java and Swing Gui
toolkit.
About Ubuntu, I have read in the lastest news that Canonical is trying
to make it leaner and faster :)
So to sum up, I agree that software can be a resource hog to trade off
for functionality, but they still can be optimized to be lighter and
faster ;) Above are the examples of this, I have also read that KDE
4.2 is lighter than 4.1 too.
I think stirring up things like this once for a while is not that bad,
we still stay civilised right? :) But the conclusion has already been
drawn, so I will stop here :P
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