[desktop-discuss] Re: [appliances-discuss] Re: Article idea "Getting Small"?

[Glynn Foster]

Hey,

John Rice wrote:
> The browser would appear to be the biggest hog on the system with regard 
> to memory consumption. If the user has 20-30 tabs open with plenty of 
> graphics on them, you can see heap usage for the browser going over 100 
> Meg without any problem. Ideas have been knocked around to make the 
> browser more efficient, from having it not store images in memory for 
> hidden tabs, to improving how it allocates pixmaps on the xserver and/or 
> having direct support in xorg for compressed pixmaps, but no one is 
> currently working on implementing any of these ideas.

Well, as others may already have picked up, this is one piece of sweet 
news -

"Unix Font Performance/Rendering patches available"
http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/freetype-devel/2006-05/msg00052.html

Hubba hubba ;)


Glynn