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11-12-11, 07:14 AM   #4
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What exactly do you mean by "lightweight"? Any computer capable of running WoW is also capable of running hundreds of addons simultaneously. Only the most complex (eg. addons like Recount that must respond to thousands of events per second) or poorly written addons will ever have any noticable impact on your computer's ability to run WoW.

Static memory usage is a completely meaningless number that tells you absolutely nothing about how an addon will affect your framerate. Even increasing memory usage is mostly meaningless, unless your computer has so little RAM that it's thrashing your hard drive(s) to constantly access swap files. CPU usage is the only useful statistic as far as addon performance is concerned, and I'm not aware of any published Broker display addons or plugins (for the features you listed) that are so complex or poorly written that they will have any effect on your FPS.

Just use the addons that have the features you want. If you start seeing reduced framerates, or other real problems, then look at the actual resource usage of your addons using an in-game performance monitor, and replace the poorly performing addon(s). Until then, there's really no reason to abandon addons you are familiar with and like. Smaller numbers are just smaller numbers. They're not inherently "better" and generally won't change anything.
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