On 1/22/06, Paul S. Bains <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Uncompiled code is not loaded into ram because it is only text. The > exception is when you are editing it..! Unless I've been compiling all > these years for no reason...:) Code must actually be compiled into a > binary and called in one way or another to be loaded into ram. > > If you mean compiled, unused code can be loaded into ram, that is > correct, but there is nothing the user can do about that - it's a > function of the application: not all compiled code gets ran at a given > time, because perhaps not all functions are being utilized at any given > moment - depends on the program. > > On 01/22/06 03:47:12, Kristian Poul Herkild wrote: > > Paul S. Bains wrote: > >> You are not being dense - unused code does nothing but take up disc > >> space. > > > > Well, the code _can_ be loaded, without being executed, and therefore > > taking up RAM. > > > > -Kristian Poul Herkild
In the time this thread has been going I managed to compile and start KDE for the first time in years. (I'm a Gnome user mostly) My impressions: 1) It seems HUGE. Menus full of so many apps.... 2) It appears to be very configurable. 3) It seemed to run nicely in most cases. 4) It crashed X on my P4HT machine when exiting. Gnome was running ina first login. I started a new session from xscreensaver's New Login button and chose KDE. When exiting KDE I couldn't get back to xscreensaver or a console. Logging in remotely and restarting xdm didn't help. I had to do a complete shutdown -h now. 5) I have not tried it with Jack to see if it would hurt my audio work, but it might be OK for my wife and son on a day to day basis. Unfortunately I wouldn't know the answers to their configuration questions and it might be more trouble than it's worth. (To me...) Not sure I have the stomach to keep something this large up to date. I couldn't find kde-light, as I'm a Gnome-light user mostly. Cheers, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
