On Thursday 01 October 2009 17:02:00 Larry Stotler wrote:
Good question. Supposedly, KDE has gotten faster and uses less resources than ever.
I have seen benchmarks that clearly show KDE4 is less memory intensive than previous version. However (there's always on of these isn't there?) this was for early versions, and these made no effort to show the CPU resources used (which in my opinion is now considerable). Of course there was a refactoring round/release of KDE3 at some point if I recall correctly. Perhaps it's time for a cleanup in the KDE4 codebase? Though I suspect certain prominent KDE4 plasma devs will forge on with so much new code for 4.4 that we'll all be swimming in CPU quagmire for the forseaable future, sadly. Bottom line? KDE4: Uses less RAM (which nobody cares about), uses more CPU (which everyone cares about). -- “Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.” ☘ Oscar Wilde -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org