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2014-04-13 , 20:39
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OK, I've had a VERY brief play with it, measuring the memory consumption with and without GUI etc. Below are rough RSS values as reported by 'top'.

Code:
App started     3588
Qt started     12048  (+8460)
GUI started    16444  (+4396, or +12856 on bare app before Qt started)
Recording      21932  (+5488)
GUI closed*)   15508

*) The cross in top right corner clicked, GUI gone, app spinning on getchar() just before the closing brace in main().
Start recording without starting the GUI was too much work for a short experiment like that but if those numbers scale well then a GUI-less app that does just recording should take less memory than a GUI app that does nothing.

I think it's worth trying after all. I will continue this topic in the Orecchiette thread but you might need to be patient. It's a school break which means more quality time with the kids and less time left for programming.
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