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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Memory consumption in KDE 2.0
From:       Steffen Hansen <stefh () mip ! sdu ! dk>
Date:       1999-05-03 22:59:26
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On Sun, 2 May 1999 pbrown@redhat.com wrote:

> > Better now than later. It'll be nearly impossible to switch to a
> > "better" (smaller, faster) ORB when the applications have been
> > stabilized and enhanced.
> 
> We might (shudder) be able to talk to the GNOME guys about this.  In fact,
> I think it is the right thing to do.  They switched from MICO to Orbit in
> a few months time.
> 
> However, we do have to write C++ wrappers for it, but that isn't too
> difficult.  AFAIK, no one is currently working on this.

If you want to reduce the size of the corba-based code (esp. libraries),
you should do like MICO's --enable-final option (which doesn't work
currently, but that doesn't matter).

I tried it with just the few files in libkded so far: I made a file
all_kded.cc with the lines:

#include "kded.cc"
#include "kded_impl.cc"
#include "more corba-related code"
...

and so forth. The primary point is to get all files that somehow include
CORBA.h or idl-generated headers compiled at once. Even with libkded,
which is still very small i got a 50% reduction in library size. The code
will probably be optimized better too, and if you have enough RAM,
compilation is much faster also.

greetings,
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Steffen Hansen                              |
email: stefh@mip.sdu.dk, stefh@imada.sdu.dk,|  
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