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[Conscious User <conscioususer@xxxxxxxxx>]

Em 29-01-2012 10:10, Chow Loong Jin escreveu:
> On 29/01/2012 16:22, supernova wrote:
> > Goodmorning (GMT+1) to all. Yesterday I tried Precise, and it works
> > very good. I have seen that it is a bit slower and more fat than the
> > gnome-shell, as it happened for 11.10, 11.04, ... . I guess it is due
> > to compiz, which is more heavy than mutter. Why don't use mutter then?
> > Unity doesn't use effects as rotation and wobbly. So mutter could be
> > sufficient.
>
> Before Unity came along, Compiz was much leaner than Mutter/GNOME Shell was,
> using around 20MB of memory at any point of time, and not leaking any. After
> Unity came along, Compiz's memory consumption jumped up to ~80-100MB.
>
> If anything, Unity is why Compiz is running slower and "fatter" than previously.


If I remember correctly, Unity came along at the same time
Compiz 0.9.0 did, and 0.9.0 was the complete rewrite from
C to C++. So Unity is probably not the only reason.