From kde-devel  Fri Oct 29 05:10:28 2004
From: Luke Sandell <ls65594 () appstate ! edu>
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 05:10:28 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: How many processes?
Message-Id: <200410290110.28964.ls65594 () appstate ! edu>
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The KDE Style Guide 
(http://developer.kde.org/documentation/standards/kde/style/basics/windows.html) 
gives the following advice:

"Whenever a Pure SDI application is started, it should, if possible, check for 
an already running copy of itself. If such a copy is found, it should be that 
copy which performs a New action, thus making a new application appear. This 
guideline is so that large programs, such as word processors, don't simply 
run in multiple copies of themselves and hog all the user's memory. "

If this is to be followed, shouldn't every Pure SDI application be a 
KUniqueApplication? 

Conserving memory is a good idea, but it leads to one problem.  If one window 
crashes, they all crash, because there is only one process. 

Wouldn't it be a better idea to have multiple processes but the majority of 
code in a shared library?  That way you are conserving memory,  but if one 
crashes the rest are unaffected.

Thanks,
Luke Sandell

 
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