Inkscape and OLPC

[Jon Phillips]

On Mon, 2007-02-12 at 12:13 +1100, James Cameron wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 12:51:35AM +0000, Jon Phillips wrote:
> > Yes, this is very interesting information. I just brought this up on
> > the Inkscape list. I think it raises an interesting question and
> > underscores how memory leaks could bring OLPC (or other systems with
> > limited resources) to its knees quickly.
> 
> I think it is already well understood by the OLPC team.

Right, I mainly meant good to consider for desktop apps like Inkscape
that aren't so concerned with memory issues...obviously Inkscape tries
hard to maintain usefulness on as many systems as possible...

> Perhaps the more important thing about OLPC isn't the size of the memory
> available, but rather the intention to run the kernel and user space
> nearly forever, using suspend and resume.

Oh, that is true...and truly important distinction...

> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_Leak has a good description of the
> concept of memory leaks.  I agree with an opinion therein, ...
> 
> "The term 'memory leak' is evocative and non-programmers especially can
> become so attached to the term as to use it for completely unrelated
> memory issues ..."

Interesting...thx for the link...

Jon

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