>>> You'd need at least 8MB to start X11 with a lightweight window manager
>>> without having it trip over itself in the process.
>>
>> Why? What does it need so much RAM for?
>
> Because the X11 specification is device-independent, so there's a few
> layers more required to deal with that, on top of it, it's a
> cleint/server environment, so it adds even more layers of code, whereas
> the AmigaOS UI is device-dependant and tied a few graphics chips with
> limited capabilities.

That would explain why it needs more compute cycles, or why it doesn't 
utilise the Amiga's graphics acceleration hardware. It doesn't explain 
why it needs drastically more RAM.

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