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points by kvemkon 12 hours ago | 0 comments
> GTK4

After my comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49235430 I've investigated the high RAM jump issue a bit further. It turned out, 60 MB comes from MESA / video graphics driver, right after the first function call, that triggers OpenGL/... context initialization. Thus:

  GTK2 14 MB
  GTK3 24 MB
  GTK4 38 MB  (+ 60 MB video acceleration)
Looks a bit better. But we still need 98 MB total.
[–] direwolf20 1 hour ago
Maybe we should also ask ourselves why modern native apps need OpenGL when you used to get by with a framebuffer. You can do more things with OpenGL but are you actually doing those things?
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