andrew@epps.kodak.com (Andrew Lukasik) (11/02/90)
I'm looking for 'cost' infomation regarding motif and X-toolkits in general. By 'Cost' I mean "what are memory and performance overheads for using GUI's ?" Anyone know of any information or studies done on this topic? Thanks, Andrew Lukasik
meo@rsiatl.UUCP (Miles ONeal) (11/04/90)
andrew@epps.kodak.com (Andrew Lukasik) writes: >I'm looking for 'cost' infomation regarding motif and X-toolkits >in general. >By 'Cost' I mean "what are memory and performance overheads for >using GUI's ?" The following is for Xt-based toolkit{ such as Xaw, Motif, etc. From fairly extensive experience, I would say about 1/4 to 2 MB, depending on the complexity of the application, the quality of compiler you have, etc. (Of course the top end is wide open; I'm talking typical). That's the client side. The server (which may, of course, be the same system) will probably use something in the same neighborhood. I can't really quote performance stats - I can say that a 50000+ line app that was GUI-intensive pretty much hogged a 4 MIPS Sun 386i with 12 MB. On the other hand that particular app made it possible for a temp to do in 3 days what had formerly taken highly trained personnel 2-3 weeks to do. The cost of a 12MB Sun quickly paled beside the productivity increase. Miles O'Neal {uunet | emory}!rsiatl!meo (home) meo@sware.com (work) {uunet | emory}!sware!meo (work)