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____/ Homer on Friday 02 Sep 2011 03:08 : \____
> Verily I say unto thee that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
>
>> LXDE, based on benchmarks I saw, is not light enough.
>
> Light enough for what?
>
> Which benchmarks?
> http://www.phoronix.com/data/img/results/linux_desktop_vitals/5.png
>
> LXDE is just 200 thousand SLOC (including 40 thousand for Openbox):
> https://www.ohloh.net/p/lxde
> https://www.ohloh.net/p/openbox
>
> Compare that with Gnome @ 8.5 million (including 0.5 million for Gtk):
> https://www.ohloh.net/p/gnome
> https://www.ohloh.net/p/gtk
>
> KDE @ 5 million (including 3 million for Qt):
> https://www.ohloh.net/p/kde
> https://www.ohloh.net/p/qt
>
> Although the KDE site itself claims the actual SLOC is 6 million even
> without Qt:
> http://www.kde.org/presspage
>
> Windows 7 is apparently 50 million SLOC (various sources), although what
> proprotion of that is the actual DE I have no idea. Most of it,
> probably, given that Windows doesn't really include much out-of-the-box.
>
> Of course if LXDE is still too heavy for you there's always tinywm, at
> just 56 SLOC and 5KB compiled. No that's not a typo ... 56 lines.
> http://incise.org/not-so-tiny-window-managers.html
I must be thinking of xfce benchmarks. BTW, KDE4 runs OK for me on 5125MB of RAM,
without graphics acceleration. 4.7 should be even faster.
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