[Lazarus] startlazarus and memory consumption

[Marc Weustink]

Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
> Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
>>
>> I was looking at my system processes and noticed that 'startlazarus' 
>> is consuming 26.7MB virtual memory & 14.5MB physical memory. Now I'm not 
> 
> OK, so 'startlazarus' is a GUI application. But I also don't see why the 
> splash.pp unit has to pull in the IDE's aboutfrm.pas just to access the 
> LazarusVersionStr constant. So that is already a few extra units 
> (AboutFrm dependencies included) which gets pulled in, and is really not 
> needed.
> 
> splash.pp could just as easily read the version.inc file without the 
> help of aboutfrm.pas

What's non GUI on a splash ?

Marc