Saturday, April 15, 2000, 8:53:34 AM, Alexander wrote:
> Okay, my _own_ experience: AMD 5x86-133 CPU overclocked to 160 MHz,
> 16 Megs of RAM, Windows'95 OSR2 Russian (this is the system I had two
> years ago). Netscape 4 worked just fine, Opera... well, it kinda worked;-)))
K6-200, 64Mb RAM, Win95 OSR2 & Win98SE
Celeron-400, 128Mb RAM, Win98SE
PII-200, 128Mb RAM, WinNT 4SP5(?)
>> speed is overwhelming when compared to IE and NS.
> I cannot confirm this. Launching speed on slow systems -- yes, but only
> _launching_ speed.
I see an overall speed boost. I have Opera (Esp. 4.0 betas) displaying
the page well before the others do. I find that I often will browse 5-7 pages
at a time with no problems.
>> Alexander>some versions also leak terribly.
>>
>> Ah well, the spoiled-coffee spots on my desk are worse :-)
> Memory leaks can be fatal for the systems with low resources, at which
> systems you say Opera is aimed at.
I've never seen Opera have a memory leak. At work (WinNT system) Opera is
shut down only when WinNT is shut down (once a week, if that) because I never
shut any program down at night. I come in, unlock my terminal, continue where
I left off. Opera 4.0b2, up since last Wed, 9.8Mb according to task manager.
Shutdown, restart, 9.6Mb. The page that I loaded up had less data on it (my
work status page, I've not done anything yet today so it is empty). So even
being liberal and calling that 200kb a memory leak that is for 3 business days
worth of work and up for 5 straight days.
Let's compare.
NS 4.5, same page: 12Mb
IE 5, same page: 10.5Mb (but how much of that is hidden in the OS,
*snort*)
NS 6PR1, same page: 26Mb
So, given 200k in 3 business days' usage, I'd need a good 5 days for it to
leak to IE's /reported/ level (which I don't trust), ~13 days to get to NS 4.5
level and 85 days to get to NS6PR1's level. That is also just for one basic
page, not the 5-7 or more I get when reading /. or internal sites. Let's not
forget to mention that IE and NS both leak as well. Hmmm...
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