KDE4 just too slow

[Brendan]

On Saturday 19 January 2008, Richard A. Johnson wrote:
> On Saturday 19 January 2008, Eduardo Robles wrote:
> | KDE 4.0.0 uses more ram than KDE 3.5.8 in my system. I installed exmap
> | and sorted by Effective Resident memory usage column, and launched
> | kmix,konsole,konqueror with two tabs,ksnapshot,klipper and kwrite. Both
> | without composite activated and within Kubuntu Gutsy freshly started in a
> | machine with 900Mb of RAM and no swap usage. The result: total memory
> | usage with KDE 3.5.8 is 123Mb, and with KDE 4.0.0 is 161Mb.
>
> Just because it is using more ram doesn't mean that it is slower. KDE 4 is
> way faster than 3.5 in many arenas, and the fastest at starting up. I am
> noticing a little bit of a larger memory footprint myself, but I think that
> might be due to a little bit of a memory leak here or there. I notice
> sometimes when I am for instance working on a wiki page with Konqi, the
> system gets super slow for a bit, then out of nowhere it cleans itself up
> and then rocks on again.
>
> One good thing is the impressive and aggressive release schedule for KDE 4
> now.
>
>  - Feb.	KDE 4.0.1
>  - Mar.	KDE 4.0.2
>  - Apr.	KDE 4.0.3
>  - May	KDE 4.0.4
>  - Jun.	KDE 4.0.5
>  - Jul	KDE 4.0.6
>  - Aug.	KDE 4.1
>
> So pretty soon we should be kickin' some arse!

Agreed. I just think all the negative attention on KDE right now is hilarious. 
These are the same people who poo-poo'd all new ideas and desperately tried 
criticizing them so they could feel mighty. I follow SVN and it gets better 
with every 'svn up'.