> GTK4
After my comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49235430 I've investigated the high RAM jump issue a bit further. It turned out, 60 MB comes from MESA / video graphics driver, right after the first function call, that triggers OpenGL/... context initialization. Thus:
GTK2 14 MB
GTK3 24 MB
GTK4 38 MB (+ 60 MB video acceleration)
Looks a bit better. But we still need 98 MB total.