Re: Kde 3.5 ...
On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 17:33, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen@gmail.com> wrote:
> Actually, I personally have not. However, this was actually the design
> goal of Qt4 and many users have tested and reported lower memory usage
> in KDE 4 compared to KDE 3. I don't know about CPU, though.
For KDE 2 -> 3, this was true. I had 128 or 256 MiB of RAM back then
and when they announced that KDE 3 would use _less_ RAM, I laughed.
Well, they proved me wrong and KDE 3 gave new life to an old machine.
With KDE 4.1, I was forced to upgrade from 512 MiB RAM to 1.2 GiB
to get from "pretty static pictures" to "slow".
> Also, the last time I ran KDE 3.5.10 it felt was noticeably lagging
> compared to my then-current KDE 4.3 setup on the same hardware. Note
> that the KDE 4.3 even had quite a few other apps installed, and the
> KDE 3.5.10 was a new install that I did to triage a possible
> regression.
As said earlier, I have KDE 4 on a pretty new machine and KDE 3 on an
ancient one. If anything, a _lot_ more in installed & running on the KDE 3
machine.
The KDE 3 machine is noticably faster in pretty much every regard.
YMMV.
> Like I said, though, if you need Qt3 libraries in addition to Qt4 (for
> Quanta, for instance) then you will be using the memory of _both_,
> naturally, and that is a lot!
Nope, pure Qt/KDE 4.
Richard
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