Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S287530AbUKASh6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Nov 2004 13:37:58 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S270958AbUKARaJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Nov 2004 12:30:09 -0500 Received: from mx2.redhat.com ([66.187.237.31]:21186 "EHLO mx2.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264330AbUKAQ5F (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Nov 2004 11:57:05 -0500 Message-ID: <41866AD6.3030907@bitplanet.net> Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2004 11:56:54 -0500 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Kristian_H=F8gsberg?= Organization: Red Hat, Inc User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (X11/20041020) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Discuss issues related to the xorg tree CC: Jan Engelhardt , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: code bloat [was Re: Semaphore assembly-code bug] References: <417550FB.8020404@drdos.com.suse.lists.linux.kernel> <200410310000.38019.vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua> <1099170891.1424.1.camel@krustophenia.net> <200410310111.07086.vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua> <20041030222720.GA22753@hockin.org> <1099322253.3647.5.camel@krustophenia.net> In-Reply-To: <1099322253.3647.5.camel@krustophenia.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1055 Lines: 29 Lee Revell wrote: > On Sun, 2004-10-31 at 07:49 +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > >>Z Smith wrote: >> >>>Or join me in my effort to limit bloat. Why use an X server >>>that uses 15-30 megs of RAM when you can use FBUI which is 25 kilobytes >>>of code with very minimal kmallocing? >> >>FBUI does not have 3d acceleration? > > > Um I don't think chucking X is the answer. The problem is that it's > embarassingly slow compared to any modern GUI. If the display were as > snappy as WinXP I don't care if it's 200MB. On my desktop I constantly > see windows redrawing every freaking widget in situations where XP would > just blit from an offscreen buffer or something. > > Anyway please keep replies off LKML and on the Xorg list... Actually, please keep replies off the Xorg list as well. Thanks, Kristian - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/