[maemo-developers] compatibility vs speed and bloat Re: [maemo-developers] gtk+ builtin stock icons removed

[From: Frantisek Dufka]

Tommi Komulainen wrote:
> This message was brought to you by the performance police. The builtin
> stock icons compiled in the gtk+ library are causing extra >30k dynamic
> memory consumption regardless of whether they're ever used. In 770 all
> icons are coming from the icon theme anyway, so this is a cheap and
> simple optimization to do. And everyone loves to have better
> performance, right? :)
> 

I know this is pretty bold comment from me but if you think 30KB is 
enough to break compatibility, why not to use uClibc instead of glibc or 
ipkg packaging system from Familiar instead of full dpkg and .deb?

I admit I still don't have the device so I'm watching all this from a 
distance but I am curious why you went for full glibc and dpkg. Did you 
evaluate uclibc and ipkg at Nokia and found it is not good enough? Or is 
glibc and dpkg not considered bloated in embedded devices anymore?

I know Familiar distribution used ipkg because full dpkg was overkill 
and used glibc mainly for better compatibility with other arm/debian 
based devices but if Maemo is different anyway and don't care about 
compatibility why not to try uclibc?

I also admit I now lived in PalmOS world for few years so my knowledge 
about recent changes in linux on ARM is a bit outdated and I actually 
never tried uclibc on ARM, only i386.

Frantisek