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Subject: Re: Huge Gnome From: Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.de> Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 21:05:33 +0100 (CET) On Mon, 13 Dec 1999, Bruce Richardson wrote: > There are *applets* that > take up more memory then the whole of WindowMaker (my wm of choice). > > Is there any good reason for this bloat? It's at least partially caused by the heavy usage of CORBA. This memory usage is the precise reason why the KDE people decided not to use CORBA in 2.0 (old 2.0 CVS snapshots had it). The advantage of CORBA is network transparence and portability - it's up to you to decide whether or not that's worth the memory. > I usually compile from source but I just bunged the i386 binaries in. > Could I reduce the size of things by compiling from the source rpms? If you select the right optimization flags, you can reduce the size marginally, but nothing really worth mentioning. ===