[Bug 952153] Re: printer applet is wasting memory

[Jérôme]

The printer applet still waste memory with quantal release ([-]buntu 12.10) :
19 MB of physical memory (7,6 MB shared).

On Xubuntu 12.10, this applet is the 2nd memory consumer just behind X !

On a computer which has no printer : it wastes 19 MB of memory for
something which will never be used.

The wasted memory has drawbacks even on recent computers : system
startup duration, energy consumption (especially with laptops), ...

Is it possible to implement this applet by using direct machine code
(through compiled C++, C, Fortran, ...) which has a better speed-space
tradeoff ?

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