Brave new world of bloat

[gdt]

Since when did a terminal start using about double the memory of Emacsen? This from Fedora 8 and XEmacs 21, but Ubuntu 7.10 and Emacs-Gtk 22 show the same.

# ps_mem.py
 Private  +   Shared  =  RAM used       Program
 10.0 MiB +   1.8 MiB =  11.7 MiB       xemacs-21.5-b28
  8.7 MiB +  11.4 MiB =  20.1 MiB       gnome-terminal

This is when someone e-mails pointing out the hidden LISP interpreter and text editor in GNOME Terminal :-)

ps_mem.py is a very fine utility for determining program memory usage.