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[Conscious User <conscioususer@xxxxxxxxx>]

Em 29-01-2012 10:58, Chow Loong Jin escreveu:
> On 29/01/2012 20:55, Conscious User wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Not quite. I was using a Compiz 0.9.0 compiled using the script from
> git://anongit.compiz.org/users/soreau/scripts before Unity came along, and its
> memory consumption was ~20MB. Unity made all the difference.


Ok, I stand corrected.

Wondering how much of this is improving in Unity 5...