Why the GTK+ wayland backend can't be enabled in linux distros, at all

[Thiago Macieira]

On domingo, 18 de março de 2012 17.07.11, darxus at chaosreigns.com wrote:
> B) Get the Nvidia proprietary driver to reduce memory consumption.
>    I haven't touched this one.  All I have found is linux-bugs at nvidia.com
>    mentioned on
>    http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_ia32_169.09.html

The NVidia GL libraries are notorious for being linked with text relocations. 
Each program that so much as loads that libGL gets 10-15 MB more memory usage, 
from start.

NVidia knows about this and will not do anything. Enabling -fPIC does cause a 
performance regression because of indirect memory accesses and by reserving 
one register.

Simply adjust your expectations: anyone using NVidia proprietary drivers will 
have to deal with this issue. So discount the 10-15 MB increased memory usage 
per application using libGL and check your numbers again.

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