On Thu, 2007-01-11 at 23:35 -0600, Gian Paolo Mureddu wrote:
Another program that I'd rather use and I 100% agree with its
inclusion
is Banshee over Rhythmbox. Not that I don't like Rhythmbox, but rather
that Banshee uses Mono instead of Python, and in my (albeit personal)
tests, I've found that Mono is less of a resource hog than Python both
in memory fingerprint and CPU time, at least on x86_64, where in x86
they both are pretty much the same (seems the memory fingerprint of
python on x86_64 is exaggerated quite a bit in regards to its i386
version, more than twice the memory print... Maybe a leak?). Also
(though I can't confirm this) Banshee has support for MTP devices
(pretty much all the newer portable mp3 devices and phones use this new
protocol, instead of MSC [UMS]), through gphoto2. I've been unable to
make Banshee "see" my iriver Clix player, while Amarok and Gnomad2 do
(but then again, these two use libmtp, not necessarily gphoto2)
Rhythmbox is written in C. The only thing that use python in rhythmbox
are a couple of the plugins, which not everyone enables.
/B
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