On 27 Apr, David J. Ruck <dr...@druck.org.uk> wrote: > 47MB isn't an unreasonable amount of memory for a browser to use. > It's less than 2.5% of the minimum any sensible system will have, and > not worth the developers of any modern application trying to optimise > away. Memory is cheap, developer's time isn't.
True, but haven't the Netsurf programmers done a great job? Netsurf runs well on even a good ol' SARPC with a max of 256MB. A web browser - a complex piece of software... and it runs *this* well on this little old computer with its little OS, with simplistic memory handling etc. We have been spoiled by what can be run in small amounts of memory, I guess. Web-browsers are hungry creatures. > Either expand your Risc PC to the maximum amount of memory it will take > (256MB) and put off the problem for another few hours. Quitting and restarting Netsurf is cheap and effective too. > or face the fact > that an almost 20 year old computer with a fraction of the processor > power and memory of a low end smartphone, just wont cut it any more. Not for every task, no. But what an almost 20 year old computer can do is OK. I like Artworks2 ( lot). I like Netsurf. I like PS3 and OvationPro. I like the apps you made. I like what ROOL appear to be doing. The porting to beagleboard etc. are interesting and I hope there can be some way forward here. However I don't (can't) do multitrack recording on RISC OS. I'm not that upset about it. That's just the way it is. <whispers> we are allowed to have more than one computer. regards, -- Robert Greenfield via RISC OS <mons...@caverock.net.nz> - http://www.webmonster.co.nz/
