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Article #201Re: OLinuXino, a serious Rasberry Pi competitor?
From: David Brown
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 08:07
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 08:07
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On 11/03/2012 00:42, Chris Baird wrote: >>> 64MB! (and promises it running Android!) >>> >>> Even a programming language like Haskell, run from the command line, >>> needs more core than that. C++ programs can easy need 200MB+ of real >>> RAM to compile. > > > Um, not. That is the GUI/DE that eats all that RAM. The actual > > functionality is maybe 5 to 10 % of that. > > Are you using the Hollywood edition of C++ with Gibson extensions > enabled? (Usually installed under the name 'Java'.) > > Memory usage while compiling KDE4 C++ sources from the command line: > > PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU CPU COMMAND > 1333 root 25 0 332M 316M CPU/0 0:17 96.03% 57.03% cc1plus > 1351 root 85 0 48M 32M pager_/4 0:00 2.47% 1.46% as > > 316MB in use by the compiler. C++ is Peeeg. And then there's Java, which > is Mrs Peeeeg after 8 years of marriage.. > > And it was said this proposed supercheap 64MB RAM RaspberryPi killer > would run Android and its Java systems. Uh, you need at least 768MB of > RAM for Android to be usable at all. > You are complaining about high memory requirements when compiling KDE4? Have you any concept about how big KDE4 is? KDE4 is a marvellous desktop environment, if you like that sort of thing - but it is huge. It is too big to run on such devices, never mind compile. Compiling software is typically more demanding (in memory, disk space, and often cpu capacity) than running it. But for most uses, you don't compile system software or standard applications - you get them as binaries with the distribution. The software compiled on a system like this is mostly small programs - such as those written by the user themselves - and thus they take small amounts of memory to compile.
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