Re: Memory consumption and virtual machines

["Veerapuram Varadhan" <vvaradhan novell com>]

On Mon, 2006-07-17 at 08:57 +0000, Philip Van Hoof wrote:
> The lovely smell of programming environment flame wars!
> 
> Part one ....
> 
> As the developer of an application that has an extremely high focus on
> reduced memory consumption and as the author of a patch for Camel that
> reduced Evolutions memory footprint with ~40 MB (maybe more, but that
> number I'm certain of) . . . 
> 
> Take for example Evolution. Using ONE WEEK of hacking, I managed to
> reduce its memory footprint with at least 40 MB of ram.  

I don't know how many times I need to repeat, because, this keeps coming
in lot different threads and I see no progress to make the patch
complete.  Yes, I agree, the patch does reduce *STARTUP-MEMORY-FOOT
PRINT* of Evolution as mentioned by Federico in his blog, however, it is
*as of now* just-a-hack that the Evolution team cannot take it *as is*.

Phillip, as you keep saying the patch needs rework before considering
upstream, when are we going to get it?  Will the final-patch addresses
all the concerns raised by me and Fejj?  Guess, you are aware of the
GNOME release cycle and API freeze dates.

V. Varadhan


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