KDE 4 Uses 40% Less Memory Than 3 Despite Eye-Candy

An anonymous reader writes "Pro-Linux reports that KDE 4, scheduled to be released in January 2008, consumes almost 40% less memory than KDE 3.5, despite the fact that version 4 of the Free and Open Source desktop system includes a composited window manager and a revamped menu and applet interface. KDE developer Will Stephenson showcased KDE 4's 3D eye-candy on a 256Mb laptop with 1Ghz CPU and run-of-the-mill integrated graphics, pointing out that mini-optimizations haven't even yet been started." Update: 12/14 22:40 GMT by Z : Or, not so much. An anonymous reader writes "The author of the original KDE 3.5 vs KDE 4.0 memory comparison has come out with a more accurate benchmark. In reality, KDE 4.0 uses 110 MB more memory than KDE 3.5.8.

Wow.

[log1385]

Someone call Bill Gates and tell him to read this.

Unbloating?

[EmbeddedJanitor]

Isn't that communist or something?

less memory!

[arse maker]

Now I can just leave my extra few gigs of ram nice an empty, they need a rest! Once we get it down to 640k we can move back to dos.

Re:Wow.

[Titoxd]

Someone call Bill Gates and tell him to read this.

It's 256 MB, not 640 K...

Re:Now if only...

[Anonymous Coward]

how the fuck is that a troll, did you look at the screenshot? it looks like hairy man-ass

Re:Wow.

[Anonymous Coward]

Try backwards compatabiltiy and then on top of that inspection and maintaining of it's own integrity.

256mb?

[TOI_0x00]

GEOS only uses 128kb and that is including eye candy, mind you 640*200 resolution.

bash? pffft...

[Junta]

WAY too much bloat for features most never use. Real men use dash (if you *must* have a program that's a shell and only a shell) or if you don't mind something a bit more versatile to save disk space at potentially the risk of slightly higher memory consumption when all you have is a shell, you use a symlink to busybox for your shell. But not with that glibc cruft mind you, uClibc is the only path to efficiency.

Also, you don't use init, you have the kernel run the aforementioned shell directly instead. Who needs all the cruft of startup services and a well set up tty, after all.

4...3....2......1.......

[rustalot42684]

FLAMEWAR!!!
just to speed things up a bit:

• The GNOME devs are interface nazis
• KDE has intolerable configuration menus and is ugly
• XFCE has no functionality
• Other window managers are for freaks and deviants
• Except TWM. Bow before the TWM gods!!!!!!!

ressourcenhungriger

[Anonymous Coward]

"The fact that a new version of an application does not always ressourcenhungriger must prove the KDE project with the next generation of the environment."

I think I just found my new word-of-the-week

CLI FTW!!!

[Anonymous Coward]

What!? Whatever happened to the "GUIs are for infants and grandmas. if you can't do it on the command line you shouldn't be allowed to use a computer in the first place" flame?

It's a sad day in Linuxland. What became of the holier than thou, I program in assembly, certifiable *nix prick?

Oh, and don't forget, "Desktop environment x is so bloated."

What Balderdash!

[spun]

You young whippersnappers and your fancy shell this and tty that. Real men feed their programs into a time share systems as big as a barn using punch cards, you young hooligan! Why, when I was a lad, all we had were toggles and lights, and we were grateful! Now get off my lawn before I shake my cane at you a second time!

Re:4...3....2......1.......

[aichpvee]

The gnome devs are microsoft whores and interface IDIOTS. Come on, how could you screw up such a simple troll?

Re:What Balderdash!

[Eli Gottlieb]

Ah, but without nudie pics, what the hell is that 640KB even for in the first place? Work? HA!

Re:What Balderdash!

[mcpkaaos]

Text adventures. Lots and lots of text adventures.

Re:Please post a new story.

[Pulse_Instance]

I wouldn't admit to having actually read it 10 times.

Re:What Balderdash!

[vorlich]

Britney...? Come now, I'm sure you who you really meant was Natalie Portman.

GNOME vs KDE

[Wiseman1024]

http://www.illusionary.com/GNOMEvKDE.html [illusionary.com]

Re:Wow.

[nschubach]

Yeah, and Clinton said he never smoked Marijuana...

Re:To compare with GNOME...

[domatic]

What do you call that? FrankenDesk ;-)

Re:Wow.

[sqldr]

I just looked it up. My god, reading this, Bill Gates actually sounds like a great guy. I guess that's what's so evil about him :-) http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bill_Gates [wikiquote.org]

Re:less memory!

[X0563511]

Modern operating systems would be the qualifier, here..

Re:Actually...

[pragma_x]

Except that Microsoft is so mind-bogglingly bad at accomplishing that task technically. Sure, their marketing department is top-notch, what with securing a virtual monopoly and all. But the programming staff seems to miss the boat time and time again.

Why not dust off last year's OS, add a few bells and whistles, and then throw in the following:

void* waste_of_space = malloc(UPGRADE_CYCLE_DRIVING_WASTE_OF_RAM); ... and be done with it? ;)

Re:CLI FTW!!!

[computational super]

What do you mean? GUIs are awesome. With GUIs, you can open up dozens of command-line terminals side-by-side.

Re:Unbloating?

[jez9999]

No, open source software is Communist. Unbloating is Stalinist.