Posted by member 534 on 2003-02-13 10:36:35 link
Litestep reports higher memory usage under XP due to the need to load COM libraries for the system tray. That's true under 0.24.7 (currently) as well and is required to support the new Microsoft system tray icons (DUN, etc.) in 2000 and XP.
However, various applications use these libraries and there is a degree of uncertainty as to how the task manager reports memory usage for programs using shared libraries (does it report the x MB used by the library for each program using it, or just once & even that can be confused further by reporting usage, but not actually using that memory, etc.) Under 2000, Litestep reports roughly a third of the memory usage that it does under XP for exactly the same configuration. However, Explorer shows the same trend. Memory is cheap and I don't believe the numbers :)
However, various applications use these libraries and there is a degree of uncertainty as to how the task manager reports memory usage for programs using shared libraries (does it report the x MB used by the library for each program using it, or just once & even that can be confused further by reporting usage, but not actually using that memory, etc.) Under 2000, Litestep reports roughly a third of the memory usage that it does under XP for exactly the same configuration. However, Explorer shows the same trend. Memory is cheap and I don't believe the numbers :)