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GTK2 Enhancement Request

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Rich:
Hi SamK

--- Quote ---This sparked a recall of a comparison done shortly after the introduction of SCMs.
http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/topic,12457.msg67531.html#msg67531
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That does not invalidate my statement. I believe that test was not a straight SCM vs tcz comparison, rather a hybrid vs tcz
comparison. The 24Mbyte gtk2.scm was likely already in existence and being used. See several posts prior to your link:
http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/topic,12457.msg67488.html#msg67488
If that's the case, it would make the SCM numbers look better than they would if they were totally self contained.

SamK:
Hi Rich

--- Quote from: Rich on February 27, 2013, 04:04:31 PM ---That does not invalidate my statement. I believe that test was not a straight SCM vs tcz comparison...

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I'm not going to chase this particular wraith.  It will take the discussion even further away from the topic.  I'll simply make the following observations and then park it.

It should not be interpreted as an attempt to invalidate your statement or a challenge to your beliefs.  The accompanying description was an attempt to convey my (unmeasured) experience of using SCMs.  In real-world usage over a reasonable period of time, this has been that the demand for RAM has been broadly neutral.  In terms of RAM usage (when using persistent TCE), I have not encountered an empirical constraint on a range of otherwise redundant hardware.

The idea of moving further towards full self-containment is at the test of concept stage.  It is likely to undergo modification and refinement during the exploration. Pesently it is unclear what, if any, the end product (including RAM usage) will be.

Rich:
Hi SamK
Sorry, in hind site, that "invalidate" statement came off as confrontational. That was not the intent.
My final observations:
Change-log in gtk2 SCM shows it existed at the time of the test.
Had the gtk2 apps been true SCMs
    They would have occupied more disk space
    The would have used more RAM due to multiple copies of the libraries being loaded

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