Survey of GUI Toolkits and Size Requirements

• Choice of toolkit affects overall memory footprint.

• Running "hello world" with various toolkits requires different resources:

  • Motif 1584 KB RAM 1582 KB File Size
  • Gnome 1536 KB RAM 2922 KB File Size
  • KDE 1824 KB RAM 2668 KB File Size
  • Fltk 728 KB RAM 563 KB File Size
  • Athena 960 KB RAM 1027 KB File Size

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