Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!ukc!edcastle!aiai!richard
From: richard@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Architectural Requirements for Unix (was: upgrades)
Message-ID: <2748@skye.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 12 Jun 90 14:43:46 GMT
References: <78-3JC2@ggpc2.ferranti.com>
Reply-To: richard@aiai.UUCP (Richard Tobin)
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In article <78-3JC2@ggpc2.ferranti.com> peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
> bloated software that really has no reason to be using that sort
> of resources. Emacs. GNU CC. X. 

While all these programs are fairly large, gcc (as I have mentioned
before) is rather better than most of the competition.  Compiling a
single large function (a virtual machine interpreter) gcc (sparc) grew
to a size of 2 Mbytes.  Sun's (sparc) C compiler compiling the same
code grew to a size of 44 Mbytes.  Mips's C compiler used at least 6
Mbytes, maybe more.

-- Richard
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