Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!bu.edu!mirror!frog!cpoint!jjmhome!m2c!umvlsi!dime!dime.cs.umass.edu!chittamu From: chittamu@dino.cs.umass.edu (Satish Chittamuru) Newsgroups: comp.software-eng Subject: Keeping programs small. Message-ID: Date: 27 May 90 00:36:00 GMT Sender: news@dime.cs.umass.edu Distribution: comp Organization: University of Massachusetts at Amherst Lines: 22 These days I find a lot of software takes up enormous amounts of memory. Most applications on our workstations generally require about 1 to 2MB. And OS require from 4 to 6MB. X itselfs takes another 3 to 4MB. Even some PC software these days require more than 640 KB and have to use extended or expanded memory. I know memory is cheap, but wouldn't it be better to write smaller programs? I mean, why do all these programs require such enormous amounts of memory. Load time, swap time, memory and disk requirements are all increased. I understand that the functionality is greater, but does the increased functionality justify such an increase in size? Do you folks have any opinions, suggestions, ideas about this? I would be very interested in hearing about it from other people. -- -Satish K. Chittamuru chittamu@cs.umass.edu Software Development Lab. chittamu@umass.bitnet Dept. of Computer & Info. Sciences University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA 01002 === God is real, unless cast to an integer.