[Lazarus] Congrats to the FPC/Lazarus projects - job well done!

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On 2017-07-24 09:42, Graeme Geldenhuys via Lazarus wrote:
> On 2017-07-24 03:39, Lars via Lazarus wrote:
>> Wirth's law applies, if you know it... As computers get faster, 
>> software
>> gets more bloated and computers cannot keep up with the software 
>> bloat.
> 
> Indeed, and it doesn't only seem to apply to Windows software. Linux
> and FreeBSD software are affected too. Just last week I tried
> FreeBSD's "native GUI desktop environment" called Lumina, which
> includes a file manager application. By pure chance I ran htop and
> noticed the Lumina file manager uses 500MB RAM.

Is it because of QT 5 ?
It says on the internets that Lumina uses QT 5

Or, in Lazarus terms: To keep on topic ;-)  do lazarus QT apps act much 
more slow or use up much more memory.

I'm always interested in the actual culprit of the issue - it could even 
be a memory leak that just needs fixing!