[devnonymous]

  > So that would be like killing a program and respawning a new process instead for some
  > benefit like reclaiming memory or speed ...
  >
  > I know evolution doesn't work that way, 

Sure its better now but that's how the early versions of Evolution worked (sorry couldn't resist !).

[navaati]

For downvoters, I guess parent is making a reference to the Evolution mail/calendar client from Gnome. Which is (was ?) indeed a memory hog.