Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 4th Jan 2008 20:47 UTC
KDE's Aaron Seigo (who owes me a Martini) wrote about a few often-heard misconceptions and questions regarding KDE 4.0, which is supposed to be released January 11th. "Now that 4.0.0 is tagged and out and that bit of worry and concern is behind me for the moment, I wanted to take a moment to talk really bluntly about 4.0. In particular, I'm going to address some of the common memes in fairly random order that I see about kde 3.5 and 4.0. I'm going to speak bluntly (though not rudely) so prepare yourself."
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2007-08-03
"And as far as memory usage:
How ironic!
http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2007/12/14/kde-uses-les.....
I don't expect those numbers either, I expect the completed product to naturally use more. But this is worth noting:
'The old version(3.5) needed 348MB to work comfortably while the new one(4.0) sail through the same tests using only 228MB'"
Which really highlights my point about benchmarking being difficult: the results presented there, while in some ways flattering to KDE, are absolutely, wildly false. KDE3.5 does not take 348MB to work; I've run it easily on a 256MB computer on which I had forgotten to enable swap! The results were debunked here by Lubos and Thiago, who know a lot about profiling and memory usage:
http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/3138
and withdrawn by the same guy who presented the figures originally:
http://www.jarzebski.pl/read/kde-3-5-vs-4-0-round-two.so
[in fact, his later figures suggest that KDE4 with compositing uses substantially *more* RAM than KDE3!]
It's kind of weird: I've been combatting claims of KDE's bloatedness compared to GNOME ad nauseum for ages now (
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=153631&highlight=kde+memor..., http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=2015680&postcount=1235 ) and now, because of one article that got re-posted all over the place without people bothering to check their facts, I'm having to do the opposite
Edited 2008-01-04 22:56