Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!auspex!guy From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Speed costs (Re: MWC's Coherent - A Lemon...) Message-ID: <3408@auspex.auspex.com> Date: 30 May 90 17:55:05 GMT References: <3886@darkstar.ucsc.edu> <21667@boulder.Colorado.EDU> <3905@darkstar.ucsc.edu> Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara Lines: 9 >Yes, of course. But surely shared libraries are a legitimate means of >conserving resources? True, the libraries do still have to be stored >and loaded... I suppose one could define an "effective size" which would >still be rather large. In which case, don't forget to include the size of the big shared library called "/unix" or "/stand/unix" or "/vmunix" or whatever... (yes, I'm completely serious about calling it a shared library).