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From: lm@snafu.Sun.COM (Larry McVoy)
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Subject: Re: Speed costs (Re: MWC's Coherent - A Lemon...)
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Date: 30 May 90 04:22:11 GMT
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In article <3886@darkstar.ucsc.edu> keller@saturn.ucsc.edu (Jeffrey M. Keller) writes:
>Your xclock binary is 1.3Meg?  It's 48K in X11R4 under SunOs 4.0.3 (sparc).

Yeah?  Tell me about it.  That executable is dynamically linked.  Go take
a look at how much it uses when it is in memory.  I think you'll find that
a meg or more is very close.  The xclock I run uses about a meg.  The 1.3
number is an R3 number I think, from a Dec 3100.
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Larry McVoy, Sun Microsystems     (415) 336-7627       ...!sun!lm or lm@sun.com