It’s pretty fast too
One of the things that’s been bugging us for the past couple weeks has been performance. Sure it’s fast on our machines but what about our target machine. There is quite a difference there. So I was finally able to get a Linux distribution (Ubuntu 6.06) on an old Dell Latitude CP M233XT (Pentium II 233 128MB Ram). While the amount of ram is the same as our target machine, the clock of the Dell is much slower than the OLPC’s. When I ran WeSay, it was very responsive. It did take around 12 seconds to launch but once it was up, moving around was pretty much instantaneous with a slight hint of a lag occassionally. Needless to say, we are very pleased. The mono+WeSay footprint was around 48M. The system was using 20M of swap.
June 30th, 2006 at 5:32 am
Cool! I’m relieved to hear that it was so responsive, even on a machine that’s a good bit slower than OLPC. I think the work you’ve done on TreeView is very helpful, too.
I’m a bit concerned about the memory footprint, though
Still, if you won’t want to run more than one or two apps at a time, and the size of the data doesn’t really matter, I guess it’s not really a problem. You might also find that a large part of the footprint is shared libraries (DLLs), and that adding a second mono-based app would not take up significantly more memory. It will be interesting to find out.