Inkscape and OLPC

[Joshua N Pritikin]

On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 10:55:18AM +1100, James Cameron wrote:
> As a first pass estimate on their size, based on Debian i386 package
> compressed package size, libsigc++ 2.0.17-2 is 33 kilobyte,
> libgtkmm-2.4-1c2a 1:2.8.8-1 is 918 kilobyte.
> 
> An inkscape 0.44.1-1 and dependent libraries binary repackaging I just
> tried then comes out at about 10Mb extra over and above OLPC build 239.
> 5Mb of that was the inkscape binary.

Isn't inkscape still a memory pig? Can inkscape be tuned to not allocate 
absurd amounts of memory? I invested in a 512M RAM upgrade just so I 
could run inkscape on moderately complex drawings.