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From: roy%phri@uunet.uu.net (Roy Smith)
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Subject: *Why* does SunOS-4.0 need more memory than 3.5?
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Date: 21 Jul 89 14:31:12 GMT
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I gather it pretty much taken as a given that 4.0 needs more memory to run
than 3.X, at least in this forum.  What I don't understand is why.  It was
my understanding that with the shared libraries in 4.0, there should be
less memory required, not more.  Your typical suntools application is
500-700 kbyte of text space; presumably most of this is the suntool,
sunwindow, pixrect, and stdio libraries, which would be shared under 4.0.
So why does 4.0 need more memory?

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