Posted Apr 4, 2009 13:29 UTC (Sat) by oblio (guest, #33465)
In reply to: A GNOME 3.0 plan by nix
Parent article: A GNOME 3.0 plan
Even if it's parallelizable, you have all sorts of single core embedded CPUs, in which case it isn't true either. So I get your point.
But something like making a whole major release whose primary goal is to reduce the memory consumption of Gnome to 10% is prone to leaving Gnome in the dust bin of desktop history - you only have so much resources, and when you try this kind of optimization it becomes all you do, you can't really add features.
A noble goal, hardly practical. Notice the evolution of all successful software, from Sendmail to Windows NT. MOAR FEATURES!