[Lazarus] startlazarus and memory consumption

[Vincent Snijders]

Graeme Geldenhuys schreef:
> Vincent Snijders wrote:
>>
>> It is to show the splash screen as soon as possible, not to wait until 
>> yet another executable is loaded.
> 
> 
> Well then we are talking about milliseconds really. A splash screen is 
> normally show just after the Application.Initialize call. Surely a few 
> milliseconds shouldn't make a difference - in return for getting the 
> startlazarus a bit "lighter" in memory usage department.
> I did a quick test and by removing splash screen support from 
> startlazarus, I managed to shaved off 3-4MB of memory usage. It went 
> down from 14MB to 10MB memory. I'd say that is worth the few 
> milliseconds extra it takes for the Lazarus executable to show its own 
> splash screen.

If you want to trade speed for memory, it is better to rewrite 
startlazarus to exit after it has started lazarus.

Vincent