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kvemkon • today at 8:24 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

> I think any empty Qt/GTK app eats 40 MB at least.

Classic GTK is (much) better (RSS on Linux):

  GTK2 14 MB
  GTK3 24 MB
Once it was decided that a desktop application must have fancy animation effects (like on smartphones) and be rendered completely on GPU things got very different:

  GTK4 98 MB

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goalieca • today at 8:55 PM

GTK used to be considered the bloated option along with QT. My first Linux box had 128MB of ram and it was screaming fast.

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