bittorrent support

[Nanno Langstraat]

Soren Harward wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 4:58 AM, Nanno Langstraat <langstr at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> I don't need Amarok on Commodore 64, but this is getting a bit much, no?
>>     
>
> Most of what you're seeing is Amarok's extensive use of shared
> libraries, unlike Firefox which is more self-contained:
>   

Fair enough, but it's moot for "seldom-shared" libraries where Amarok is 
usually the only running user.

The proposed BitTorrent client library would be a nice example of that. 
And e.g. 'amarok_service_magnatunestore.so' is shared in name only.


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So, taking a different way to measure: 'free -m'. The "-/+ 
buffers/cache" line changes by +- 106 MiB when I start/quit Amarok.

On the order of 100 MiB directly attributable to Amarok. Not something 
that I'll storm the barricades for, but OTOH you might feel it's a 
little overweight when just playing some .mp3 files in the background.


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By the way, I now see that many Amarok parts are already loaded 
dynamically, not directly with dlopen() but via KPluginLoader. For the 
context applets it's nicely on-demand, but services and collections 
(e.g. MagnaTune store) seem to get loaded unconditionally.


    Regards,
    Nanno