The "iGoogle bug"

[Don Hopkins]

> This is #3352: https://dev.laptop.org/ticket/3352
>
> What's special about this page is that the clock applet uses two
> very wide bitmaps of 3200 pixels each to represent the clock arms in all
> possible positions.  (that's over 2MB of RAM wasted, nice!)
>   

Wow, 2MB of ram for a clock? That's 32 Commodore 64's: even worse than 
Sun's Open Look clock tool! Kids these days...

 From the "X-Windows Disaster":
http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/unix-haters/x-windows/disaster.html

"X has had its share of $5,000 toilet seats -- like Sun's Open Look 
clock tool, which gobbles up 1.4 megabytes of real memory! If you 
sacrificed all the RAM from 22 Commodore 64s to clock tool, it still 
wouldn't have enough to tell you the time. Even the vanilla X11R4 
"xclock" utility consumed 656K to run. And X's memory usage is increasing."

    -Don