The "iGoogle bug"

[Bert Freudenberg]

On Sep 18, 2007, at 10:45 , Don Hopkins wrote:

>
>> 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."

Well, if the XO's calculator activity can take 20 MB RAM (+10MB  
shared), then 2 MB for a clock seems small.

- Bert -