Let's break this silence

[Mohammad Ebrahim Mohammadi Panah]

Hi everybody (if any!),

Who am I?
I'm a long time KDE user, who also has some minor contributions to KDE
here and there. I'm also a software developer, specially high
performance software, usually using C++.

(Let me say it first: I'm really sorry if my words bother you. I'll be
narrating some sad dramas.)

Why am I here?
I'm dissatisfied with KDE performance, CPU-wise, memory-wise, etc.
This is one of my stories: one day me and my KDE-using friend were
talking about everything, and then he said KDE is bloatware. First I
tried to tell him KDE is not that bad. But after I checked memory
usage on my own system, I found out unfortunately he's right. A
regular KDE 4.4 desktop alone was using around 500 megs of RAM. My
friend runs many (bloated) apps, so he needs all bytes of his RAM!
After a few days I met him again. He had switched to Gnome. He told me
he's much happier now with his faster and less bloated desktop,
although he still ran some KDE apps on his Gnome desktop. :(
It seems there is a problem with KDE which should be fixed. I searched
around the internet for KDE optimization content. But almost all the
info was years old, and for the KDE3 age. The most promising reference
I found was this mailing list. I took a look at archive and... aaah, I
should have guessed.

Now what?
I think there is room to make KDE faster and less memory hungry,
although I haven't dug deep into the issue. I thought I should discuss
the issue with you, the more experienced KDE developers/optimizers, to
see what's your idea. Is there any plan/roadmap/strategy for
optimizing KDE? Any guides or guidelines? Have you documented your KDE
optimization experience anywhere? What's your ideas about how we can
optimize KDE?

A crude idea to make things more spicy: What's your idea about
removing some dynamic memory allocations by using stack in place of
heap?

BTW I really like to know how many people are reading this mail! (I
hope it is not zero.)