On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 17:33, Dotan Cohen <dotanco...@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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/i2l2d460de71005060909u9615296aj6a704e18759c4...@mail.gmail.com
