[Development] Question about Qt's future

Thiago Macieira thiago.macieira at intel.com
Mon Apr 28 09:28:17 CEST 2014


Em seg 28 abr 2014, às 08:00:56, Peter Kümmel escreveu:
> On 27.04.2014 22:41, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> > Em dom 27 abr 2014, às 13:31:33, Peter Kümmel escreveu:
> >> Then adding 100MB just to run QML really hurts, and you start
> >> looking for alternatives, like using only QWidgets with very
> >> limited OpenGL support or not to use a Qt-GUI at all.
> > 
> > Of those 100 MB, 30 MB are taken by QtCore and QtGui (including ICU data).
> > The rest, I'm guessing you pulled the numbers out of thin air without a
> > benchmark.
> Yes, only a wild guess based on the numbers provided by Roland.
> Currently I have a QWidget based system which runs with 32MB,
> and I would not even try QML on this board, but maybe I'm too
> pessimistic. (hint: here Digia's marketing has to jump in ;) )

I'd say that if you don't care to try, then keep it running with QWidget. 
Marketing shouldn't convince you, only engineers should. And since engineers 
are in this discussion and can't convince you, then maybe no one can.

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Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
  Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center




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