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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: big *thank you* for the latest developments
From:       Waldo Bastian <bastian () suse ! de>
Date:       1999-10-22 18:38:24
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> Yes, there are ways to hack around this, but why? If you run an cd-player
> applet, you can easily run another process. After all, processes are not _that_
> expensive and they offer a fair bit stability (crashing or hanging cd-player
> won't crash kicker). 

A typical KDE process requires 1.5Mb if you compile Qt with exception
support and approx. 0.5 Mb if you compile Qt and kdelibs without
exceptions.

This is just the overhead. Memory actually used for something is not
yet part of this. (numbers based on egcs1.1.2)

I call that rather expensive.

Cheers,
Waldo

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