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From: kit@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Chris D. Peterson)
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Subject: Re: Size of toolkit-using programs?
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Date: 27 Jun 89 16:18:25 GMT
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>  I am using a VAXstation II to write programs for X11R3 using the X toolkit.
> My question is what is the typical size of such programs?  It seems that all
> (really just two) of the programs I have written come out at around 2 MEGS.
> Is this normal when the toolkit libraries are used or do I have some unusually
> large libraries, or what?

Toolkit applications are big, but not usually that big, here are a few from
my home machine (a tek4310):

-rwxrwxr-x  1 kit        434176 May 16 13:41 xmh/xmh
-rwxrwxr-x  1 jim        418816 Jun  7 16:29 xman/xman
-rwxrwxr-x  1 jim        431104 Jun 22 19:31 xterm/xterm
-rwxrwxr-x  1 kit        377856 May 11 18:46 xedit/xedit

These are all fairly complicated programs, and of course things tend to vary
depending upon your machine's instruction set.  It sounds like perhaps one
or more of your libraries may have been compiled with debugging information.
That tends to make toolkit applications really big.

						Chris D. Peterson     
						MIT X Consortium 

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