nanogui: Re: [Handhelds] Re: Small open source web browser introduced
Subject:
Re: [Handhelds] Re: Small open source web browser introduced
From:
####@####.#### (Jim Gettys)
Date:
17 Jul 2000 21:24:27 -0000
Message-Id: <200007172124.OAA23452@pachyderm.pa.dec.com>
Remember: we're running out of a 16 megabyte ramdisk this instant: even
with 16 megabytes burned on ramdisk there is lots of space (until we use
it up, that is!) much/most of which we get back as soon as we cut over to
cramfs/jffs... And in this configuration after X is running in our demo
we still have something like 6 megabytes free.
Also, remember I've seen serious estimates of what could be done on the
GTK+ side, though that isn't under my control (I was asked not to make
them public, so I haven't circulated them).
Given the data I have in hand, I just refuse to be scared about going
with a more modern tookit and/or environment: the question is exactly
what, not whether.
Data is worth tons more than rapid hand movement.
And paying once for a good toolkit that returns alot by small executables
may be a very good trade. The issue is really how many bytes a suite
of applications take, not the absolute size of the toolkit, which
may (or may not) be carrying its weight).
- Jim
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> From: Warner Losh ####@####.####
> Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 13:16:46 -0600
> To: "Greg Haerr" ####@####.####
> Cc: "Jim Gettys" ####@####.####
> "Matthew Kirkwood" ####@####.####
> "Alan Cox" ####@####.####
> "Roberto Alsina" ####@####.#### ####@####.####
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> Subject: Re: [Handhelds] Re: Small open source web browser introduced
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> In message ####@####.#### "Greg Haerr" writes:
> : I wasn't saying that X+GTK=2.5MB, I was saying that GTK=2.5MB
>
> The reduction would be enough to allow GTK to fit where only X would
> fit before. I think that's what Jim was saying about reducing 1/2 of
> it. I could be wrong....
>
> However, gtk is very large when it comes to toolkits. It is even
> bigger than OI (Object Interface, a C++ toolkit I worked on and sold
> in the early 1990s) and Motif. Both of which are neat tricks. :-)
>
> Warner
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Jim Gettys
Technology and Corporate Development
Compaq Computer Corporation
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